Several years ago, I worked with a guy who had every tool and device you’d possibly need in your classroom. He often had several, and he was happy to share.
Ed gave me an HDMI cable once, when I was trying to get a projector to work with my laptop. And he gave me a multimeter which sat unused in a drawer for years so I shared it forward with someone else (and within a week was in our garage wishing I had a multimeter).
Anyway one day several years ago, I was in Ed’s room while he was going thru a box of stuff. He pulled out a fifteen foot Fireware cable and started waxing philosophical about it. I mean, I still have some Firewore drives, still and have saved the cables. So I was on his side. But Ed was really quite animated about this reunion with a long-forgotten friend.
“This is great!” he said, smiling and holding up the cable. He reached around his laptop.
“It’s just great…”
And then he stopped short.
“…except I don’t see that here. They must not make them, anymore.”
It true. They didn’t. Indeed, they hadn’t for quite some time.
So you might be asking, what good is that Firewire drive in the closet going to do me? I’ll go check with Ed.