14 Jan
2015
14 Jan
'15
12:17 a.m.
What about using a CF Card adaptor and CF Card? Would that work?
Alternatively stick an ISA network card in the machine (NE2000 clone
preferably, and I think some of these come with 10BaseT) and then boot the
DOS TCP/IP client. If the machine will boot from floppy it is also possible
to make a bootable GHOST disk that will make a ghost image over the network.
Failing that you could use the KA9Q TCP/IP software and FTP the files
across.
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Subject: Re: Recovering Win3.1 Data
Depending on the BIOS, you could attach a drive with an IDE (host
facing) to SATA connector and a small drive to the system. This probably
would have to go to a second IDE port, so both could be independent of each
other.
Image the 420mb drive to the SATA drive, and remove it.
Jim
On 1/13/2015 3:29 PM, Mouse wrote:
Don't forget, with a technique like that there is no need to
limit it
to (eg) serial-port speeds; the limitations will be the software on
each end, the response time of the LED, and the response time of the
phototransistor; these might well permit megabit-plus rates.
420MB at one megabit, unrealistically assuming no framing or error
loss (ECC, retransmit, whatever), is under an hour. Cut the speed to
100Kb and double the data for framing and error loss, and my
calculation says 19.57+ hours, still less than a day.
I don't know about the original poster, but I wouldn't consider that
out of the question at all.
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If the original machine boots, there are many
possibilities. I once
did a linkup with a system with NO serial or parallel ports ([...])
by bit banging an LED on the console and picking the bits up with a
phototransistor connected to some parallel port pins.
I hate to think how long it
would take to transfer a 400MB drive
using that $