Firewire to USB - Thoughts?

Sky Blue Lou said:
It's not really "fascination" like restoring an older car. It's more that the stuff I spent good money on is essentially junk now. That pisses me off. It was good enough for me then it would be good enough for me now but it's lifespan is essentially limited. How long can I keep it going?
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I've got a 486 box that started out as a 486-25 and morphed into a 486-100 with a replaced motherboard, processor and memory. It had DOS, and got Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It got upgraded to Win95 which still runs on it today. It's got a tape drive and a couple of old hard drives, 3.5 and 5.25" floppies, a network card and a SCSI port for a scanner. When I purchase it in the early 90s, it was about $1800. With the "upgrades, I've probably got over $2500 in it. It still runs, but essentially, it's JUNK now. It was good for running old DOS and Windows games in it's day. I played a lot of Diablo and various war games with friends, spent a lot of time on Compuserve and GEnie with it, but it's time is passed. I keep it for the occasional time I need a floppy drive (about once every year or 2).

Oh yeah, I've built 3 other computers since I bought that one, and bought 2 more prebuilt desktops, plus laptops. The P2-800 was nice, the P4-2G was a great gamer. All but one still run today. But they are essentially worthless.

It's not a lot different from the new electric stove that I'm looking to buy next week. Three of the 4 burners on the old one are still working. But I can't get new parts, and the wiring on the hood is going bad. Or the 27" Sony TV that I bought and was still working nicely, until they decided to stop broadcasting the old analog VHF/UHF signals. The $900 that I paid for it in the 90s is more like $2000 today.

Eventually, you just say "enough" and move on. I keep looking at new computers. For $500 I can get something that is more than twice as fast as the computer I'm using for audio/video today.

But it's fun to get old stuff to work. Let us know if you get it working. I'm sure there are others out there with Firewire gear that they would like to resurrect.
 
TalismanRich said:
But it's fun to get old stuff to work. Let us know if you get it working. I'm sure there are others out there with Firewire gear that they would like to resurrect.
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Yeah I will. Got a few paths to try and nothing but time to lose - so far. lol

First thing is to move all my old files onto newer HDs for safekeeping and then load a newer version of Reaper onto my Win10 box and make sure I can load the old stuff. I'll just use onboard audio for play back for now. Then I guess a two-pronged approach - See if there are any newer mobos I could try to load XP onto and run my older gear on fresher "old" stuff and also start experimenting with Firewire cards and drivers on the Win10 box see if I can't bring the Audiofire into the new age. And of course keep digging for info. I can't be the only damned fool to have tried this...
 
Just joined to chime in on this FW thread... I'm right in the middle of setting up a new-to-me MOTU 828 MKII FW device on a Win10 box (I have one on another box that has worked flawlessly for years), and I've had to solve a few challenges. I've owned a few pieces of FW gear. Had a bit of an issue with the setup of this 2nd 828. The headache is the driver installation for the FW card in most cases, you have to do it 3 different times to make it work. That link to Studio1productions was really helpful, but there are some cards that just don't want to play nice. I have a 3rd one on order ( just arrived today), so I know what I'll be doing tomorrow. The current FW card I have in my recording PC I stole out of a production machine that has another 828 on it, and I need to get that back online.

My working cards have always been T.I. cards, and that is the case today.

S~
 
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