Tony Duell wrote:
So far the best I've come up with is to link one
machine to a palmtop
(HP95LX), then transfer the data to that, carry the palmtop to the other
machine and transdfer the data on. It's not ideal, but it does work.
Any other ideas?
Hmm, I've got a deep mistrust of any 'data over the mains' technology, but
might that be an option here? I assume *most* of your systems are physically
plugged into the mains anyway, so it'd meet the ideal requirement for no extra
cabling. Data rates presumably not lightning fast, of course...
Sneakernetting data around isn't such a problem in a classic context, though -
most old machines need you to be physically present in order to do anything
(interesting) with them, so carrying the data back and forth isn't any great
hardship.
Some sort of RS232 star-based topology could be fun, though :)
cheers
Jules