In article <ko9t02h3f331ujoii21t8dtva9pkj17n9d@4ax.com>, Happy Trails
<undisclosed@obscure.com> wrote:

> For my previous notebook that had no 1394 port builtin, so I bought a
> PCMCIA  1394 port card that came with a cable with a tiny, squarish
> connector that fit the camera, and a larger connector, slightly fatter
> than USB, that fit the 1394 PCMCIA card connectors.

That's a powered USB connector.  It will allow things like bus-powered
hard drives, which don't require an AC Adapter.
> 
> The 1394 port on the new PC has a connector that is a tiny one, like
> on the camera, not the larger one like the PCMCIA card.

That's an unpowered one.  The connectivity is the same, but it can't be
used to power devices.  The powered ones are 6-pin; unpowered, 4-pin.

> Does anyone know if there is a standard cable I can get that has the
> tiny plugs on BOTH ends, and will connect my camera to the new
> computer's 1394 port?

You bet; it is indeed a standard cable.  A search for "Firewire Cable"
will yield a lot of hits.  Here's one:

http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat%5Fid=601
(Never done business with them, it was just one of the first hits.)

You can, of course, get these retail as well.  Radio Shack carries
them, for example:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062044