AAUI

My back still hurts, so I'll keep typing.... Sure I can blame Apple for the lack of drivers, if stinking Apple wrote a "generic" driver or even published a stable API for its non standard PCI byte swapped version of PCI then plenty of cards would have worked on the mac. As it was, ONLY a handfull of often third parties ever bothered to write a mac driver for a PC PCI card, and mac users paid through the nose for those items. Firewire was always an Apple first product, my guess is that some PC products may have Apple ancestry in the driver code or at least high level design. Sort of true for USB, except in the PC world about half the cards meet the open standard that is what Apple drivers recognize, and half don't and hence won't work with Apple drivers (nobody "really" AFAIK makes a Apple specific USB driver). PCI Video cards I follow pretty closely, and MAYBE a total of 10 cards work with macs, with half of those being somewhat generic PC PCI cards. Not moving closer to the AGP PC standard was killing Apple video performance, so maybe the latest macs have better compatibility, I don't know the details of that however. Oh happy day, we get the two year old most overpriced PC sound card, without all the features, finally for the mac. ************** I have fun with old macs, I currently use a Starmax for daily stuff, but I am moving to daily PC use because I am sick of browsers on the mac that don't work. In a word, javascript, love it hate, heck I don't even know exactly what it is, but it doesn't work on mac browsers and that means many pages I want to access I can't. Enough for me, tomorrow, Sun 3/25 is the ACP swapmeet in Santa Ana, CA and I want to be there at 7 am.