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0 pointsChrisClark12y ago0 comments

I think it came with a giant yellow parallel port cable, right?

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And a blue serial one. Or the other way around.

Lacking networking it was the best/only way to pump data from one box to the other.

The old DOS-based LapLink was awesome. I recovered many people's files with that when I was first learning how to do this whole computery thing.

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0 pointsChrisClark12y ago0 comments

I think it came with a giant yellow parallel port cable, right?

And a blue serial one. Or the other way around.

Lacking networking it was the best/only way to pump data from one box to the other.

The old DOS-based LapLink was awesome. I recovered many people's files with that when I was first learning how to do this whole computery thing.

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