[Hidden-tech] More packrat stuff... files off an ms-dos system?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:14:51 -0400 "B. Kimo Lee" <bklee at azurelink.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> Steven Solomon's "pack-rat" post inspired me to move on this legacy  
> issue.
> I have an ancient Espon Equity II+ (MS-DOS) on which are some original  
> songs my ex wrote years ago. No, she doesn't have hard-copy printouts.  
> Yes, it has parallel ports!!

It should have a serial port (it *might* be an older DB25 *male*,
rather then the newer DB9 *male* -- PC parallel port use DB35 *female*
connectors).  Serial port's are way better for file transfers than
parallel ports.  Older parallel ports are output only (and parallel
ports are asymetrial in general).  A serial port and some flavor of
X/Y/Z modem will do what you need.  Even without a X/Y/Z modem transfer
program you can transfer stuff.  Convert it to plain ASCII and and
shove it down the serial port ('copy file.txt COM1:' might even work!).
You just need a null modem cable (Radio Shack sells them for like
$29.95 or something) and maybe a DB25 female to DB9 male serial adapter
(Radio Shack has these too).  You just need a newer PC that is not so
'new' that it lacks an RS232 connector.

> Thought I'd see if anybody has some thoughts on how to transfer the  
> files onto an external drive of some sort?
> Is this even possible? I'm really curious if some of you ultra-geeks  
> can recommend something. I'd like to recycle that thing and get it out  
> of my basement once and for all. lol!


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> Thanks,
> Kimo
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