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Ha, funny! I did something very similar when we moved from old NEC APCs with 8" floppies to brand new IBM PC XTs and ATs! The consultants wanted something like
by yardshop 2y ago
Ha, funny! I did something very similar when we moved from old NEC APCs with 8" floppies to brand new IBM PC XTs and ATs! The consultants wanted something like $200 per disk to convert them. I was able to rig up a serial cable and a tiny Turbo Pascal program to send files from one machine to another. A couple cheap cable ends from Radio Shack and some spare phone wire from the basement was all it needed!
The serial printer port trick is very clever too. I don't think my transfer was as fast as 9600. Good job!
- chasil 2y agoThanks! "The consultants wanted something like $200 per disk to convert them." As P.T. Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute. Your coworkers hopefully thanked you for letting that be the next guy. Edit: he might not have said it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_ever...