✧✦Catherine✦✧i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago
Never touch the terminals.
Please don't. Cause of failure.
This may be the cause.
It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time.
It is not possible.
KFears& 🏳️⚧️@whitequark What the fuck is this
Is it... A pluggable PCIe extension card for networking? Why... Would it specify that using with multiple computers is not possible? Why? Who would want that? Why it PCIe x16? Why?
I have so many questions. Explanatory alt text would go so fucking hard here.
MacBalance@KFears @whitequark Itnlooks like IEEE 1394 or “FireWire” among other names. Mostly used for external storage.
Many FireWire devices had 2 ports to allow daisy chaining: It essentially replaced external SCSI on Macs for a few years.
I’m assuming this implementation was not tested and didn’t handle a possible layout with computer A to Device to Computer B which I don’t think was intended by the standard. MacOS did support networking over FireWire at some point as I remember, but it may have been OS specific.