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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How do you plug in a firewire device if the computer doesn't have firewire?
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You can't if it's a laptop or a newer motherboard with no original type true PCI slots.
I certainly could only find old PCMCIA card adaptors for laptops and laptops haven't had those for close to 15 years. My 2002 laptop has firewire and still goes. Bought April 2002 and XP only re-installed once (June 200). I used it up to Nov 2016!
If you have a PC with a PCI bus slot you can still get firewire cards. I don't see them for PCIe. My 8mm Digital camera has firewire so I have a Linux box with a PCI Firewire card and an extra 2G Byte SATA drive for capture and edit. I have a briefcase full of 8mm home movies to transfer. Fortunately the Sony Digital 8 also plays Analogue tapes via the Firewire at better quality than any analogue 8mm camcorder with a composite or Y/C analogue Video to PCI capture card. USB based Analogue video capture is rubbish and often only NTSC rather than PAL.