At Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:14:51 -0400 "B. Kimo Lee" <bklee at azurelink.com> wrote: > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hi all, > > 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! > > Thanks, > Kimo > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk