Subj : Re: Looking For Bbs Clien
To   : AKAcastor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat May 04 2024 09:59:00

-=> AKAcastor wrote to Kirkspragg <=-

 AK> That's a great way to transfer files to retro PCs!  What kind of speed
 AK> do you get using fastlynx?  I used Laplink but only a little bit and
 AK> it's been decades, so I don't really recall the speed of it either.
 AK> Your setup sounds great for pulling the files you want from your
 AK> collection to your retro PC, when you want the files.

Computer hobbyists are notorious for hoarding cables. I know I've gone
through my phases.

When I moved the last time, I did a reckoning of my cable stash, and
tossed parallel cables, old SCSI-1 cables and terminators, IDE cables,
weird PS/2 to serial dongles, and even an old joystick with that weird
connector.

The one cable I would NOT part with? A Laplink DB9 to DB9 null modem
cable. I'm sure someday I'll need it.   :)

I used Laplink with an HP Omnibook 300, a weird little laptop with a
reflective screen, Windows 3.1 in ROM, and insane battery life. It could
run on AA batteries in a pinch. It came with the cable and laplink
software to get files to/from the system out of the box, but I ended up
finding an ethernet card that worked in it.

I think of all of the weird hardware I had at work that, if I'd taken it
with me, work wouldn't have missed it one bit - the Omnibook and an IBM
Workpad Z50 stand out. I'm sure they sat in a storage room until they
were e-wasted after I left.



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