Recovering Win3.1 Data

Ali cctalk at fahimi.net
Tue Jan 13 17:01:22 CST 2015


> If the original machine boots, there are many possibilities.  I once
> did a linkup with a system with NO serial or parallel ports (and an
> utterly incompatible with anything floppy setup) by bit banging an LED
> on the console and picking the bits up with a phototransistor connected
> to some parallel port pins.

Chuck, 

I hate to think how long it would take to transfer a 400MB drive using that method... Of course if the data is valuable enough...



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