Re: Floppies

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <43a9ab95$0$25260$cd3e3bf6@news.enter.net>,
thewises <thewises@enter.net> wrote:

> For transferring files between modern computers, memory sticks and CDs are 
> fine. But I couldn't transfer files to my 386 or my ancient IBM PC if my 
> Pentium IV didn't have a floppy drive.

Floppy disks isn't the only option for data transfer to/from old 386'es:

There were CD readers even for old 386'es, which offered an option to
transfer files to, but not from, that 386.

A few years ago I decided I wanted to transfer all the contents of my
old 386 to CD and archive it there.  Since I knew no way to add a CD
burner to that 386, all the files had to be transferred to a more
modern computer.  I had 700 MBytes disk space on that 386, of which
some 600 MB actually was used, which meant that the contents would
nicely fill one CD.  But I considered it impractical to transfer all
those 600 MBytes to another computer using floppy disks.  The solution
was to equip that 386 with an Ethernet card and connect it to my home
network.  This meant that I had to find networking software for good
ol' MS-DOS, and that I also had to enable the NetBEUI protocol in one
of the more modern computers.  But it worked out: the network
connection between the 386 and the network worked, I could transfer
all the files to another computer and burn it on CD there.

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