Does G4 have firewire Port?

I'm pretty new to the whole world of Apple and Macs. I've got an 800 mHz Power PC G4. This computer I know for a fact has the slower USB ports (i.e not 2.0). I'm just wondering if there is a firewire port on this computer. I've never used fire wire, but I'm using various scanners at this point and I noticed, using the USB port make for some very slow scanning. I don't even know if the Canon Pixima that I have can use fire wire, but I'm thinking that if it does, using the fire wire port on the G4 in conjunction with the Pixima scanner, will speed things up.
And, if this computer does have fire wire, when shopping for a new scanner, I can make sure the scanner has a fire wire connection. Does that make sense?

The Apple Pro Speaker port is very high powered and cannot be connected to anything other that the Apple Pro Speakers (which came with some but not all iMac G4s). Apple Pro Speakers are pretty good actually, definitely better than the internal ones on the current Alu iMacs. The port is high power so no separate supply is needed, connecting anything else will damage that device and has been known to cause major problems with the iMac itself - there's a reason the port differs! Pro Speakers are widely available on ebay. A close version of them used USB as the connection but these where the ones for the Power Mac G4 Cube.
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