13 Nov
2015
13 Nov
'15
6:13 a.m.
On 2015-11-13 12:36, william degnan wrote:
I used to use a program called Laplink, which came
with special serial and
parallel option cables to transfer files from one dos machine to another.
It was useful to "image" DOS computers with it.
Ah, thank you. I have been trying to remember that name since this
thread started. I've used extremely little DOS, but I remember seeing
LapLink in there. I think it could even bootstrap itself across a serial
port to a different machine, as long as DOS was installed. And then it
could copy pretty much everything else over.
I don't think these were straight through cables
and you needed the laplink
software to be running on both sides. I see the cables on ebay, I picked
up a set a few years ago to move contents of similar MS DOS system. Serial
is much slower than parallel obviously.
Actually, the cables were straight through. The nice thing was that the
serial cable had both the DE9 and DB25 on both sides. And it was
combined with a parallel cable as well. So you had two cables and three
connectors on each side.
(Well, by straight through I mean that they were null-model cables.)
Johnny