Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:54PM from the I'll-never-let-you-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes I have an old Compaq Contura Aero laptop from the nineties (20 Mhz, 12 Mb RAM, Windows 3.11, 16-bit, PCMCIA, COM, LPT, floppy) with 160 Mb drive that I would want to copy in full to a newer machine. The floppies are so unreliable — between Aero's PCMCIA floppy drive and USB floppy disk drive — that it is a total nightmare to try and do it; it just doesn't work. If that option is excluded, what else can I do? I have another old laptop with Windows XP (32-bit, PCMCIA, COM, LPT) that could be used; all other machines are too new and lack ports. Will be grateful for any ideas.

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THE SLASHDOT BETA IS DEAD! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-26 13:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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