Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 282

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 282. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Scrambled coach or underwater vessel came with the first iMac.

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USB

Scrambled coach (‘bus’ rearranged) or underwater vessel (‘sub’ rearranged) came with the first iMac (it was first introduced with the original iMac in 1998).

2: Burning telegraph was best with DV cameras but couldn’t compete with 1.

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FireWire

Burning (fire) telegraph (wire) was best with DV cameras (it was standard with most of them) but couldn’t compete with 1 (Macs abandoned it in favour of USB and Thunderbolt).

3: Could sound seedy or sexy, so it was terminated by 2000.

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SCSI

Could sound seedy (it’s pronounced the same as the word ‘scuzzy’) or sexy (it had originally been intended to be pronounced like that), so it was terminated (one of the bugbears with SCSI is using its special bus terminators) by 2000 (Apple discontinued support in 1999).

The common factor

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In their day, they were each high-speed external interfaces for Macs.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.