Evan;
A 20 Meg image - imagine the cost of a harddrive when the 286 was new!
Do you have a serial port on both computers?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO-11.htmlWe used serial and parallel ports to transfer data. I have not done that for eleven years but it worked well.
Tom
>I have a 20 meg image file that I have to get off an old 286's WORM drive. I'm trying to do this without buying any new hardware, but will buy some hardware if I have to.
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>- I can't install the WORM drive into a new computer, since none have SCSI cards in them
>- I can't copy the data to the hard drive and move the hard drive to a new computer since none of our new computers have SCSI connectors
>- the NIC is COAX and we don't have any COAX to twisted pair convertor
>- no USB connectors on the old computer to install an external drive or thumb drive
>- no ZIP drive, not sure if one would work on that vintage of computer
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>The best option that I can think of is perhaps to use PKZIP and a ton of floppies to get the data off.
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>Any better ideas how to get the data off?
