USB & FireWire
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It’s so much nicer to be able to connect stuff to our computers using USB and FireWire than it was to rely on the old serial and parallel ports. Those required you to shut off your computer, hook up the peripheral, then reboot.
USB and FireWire don’t, but you still need to dismount, or stop, external drives and flash memory drives before you remove them. Usually, this means clicking a green arrow icon near Windows XP’s clock and choosing the device to stop. If you forget to do this, you could lose data or even make the device misbehave.
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