25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
10:42 a.m.
Two other ways to do it - 1) use Kermit on the serial
port. Sure, 40Mb will
take a while to squirt out of an 8250 serial chip (don't try rates much
over 19.2kbps), but all the equipment is there. 2) Locate a high-density
8-bit floppy controller and use 1.44Mb disks. I have one - it has its own
BIOS to handle the differences. They would be difficult to locate now, so
unless you already have one, it's probably not a good solution.
I would use a parallel port ZIP drive. It only needs to stay working long
enough to copy from HD to ZIP and from ZIP to other machine.
Or MicroSolutions Backpack drive (parallel port)
Or Floptical 20M (SCSI
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