What is this?

[steamboat26]

I recently restored my family's old imac, which my sister took to school. I found this wire, which i assume came with the imac...

(sorry about the bad picture quality) I am pretty sure that it is a firewire to mini usb. Any idea why this might have come with my imac G3?

 

[PlaceofDis]

actually i'd say that is a six pin FW to four pin FW.

 

[WildCowboy]

Looks like a 6-pin/4-pin FireWire cable to me...

Edit: Missed it by that much...actually a whole two minutes. I'm really slow today.

 

[steamboat26]

What do i use it for? transfering data?

 

[PlaceofDis]

What do i use it for? transfering data?

yeah. a lot of MiniDV camcorders have the four pin on the camera itself and the six pin is for the computer. its mainly for device connection.

 

[WildCowboy]

Yes...it would be used to hook up a FireWire device containing a four-pin port to your Mac. The most common thing with a four-pin port would be a video camera...the smaller four-pin port saves space on a small, portable piece of equipment like that.

Edit: Arrghh...beaten again! 😡 😉