Original Commentary

If Brisbane new more about computers, he'd know that he has no use for a firewire card. I'm sure Robert picked it up for a couple dollars somewhere. When I wrote this, I wasn't sure if Robert's last line should be spoken or thought. I went with spoken - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Firewire let you tranfer data quickly between devices. It was mainly used for video cameras and such, since it was 300 times faster than the original USB1.0. Then USB kept getting faster and firewire kinda died in the late 2000s.

I've never used it, but back then I probably thought it'd be cool to have one back then. Not enough to actually buy one, though. I don't know what Brisbane would even do with one.

But yeah, Robert picked it up because it was a great deal, then he found he didn't have any use for it and he'd rather pass it along than throw out a perfectly good computer peripheral.- Terrence