How to transfer data TO an old laptop

[oilyhands]

If it has a mini IDE connector you can buy adapters with a discrete power socket trailer that will hook into one of your spare PSU connectors. I've used the disk to disk method a number of times, it's easier if the disk is FAT based.

 

Oily

 

Edited by - oilyhands on 26 Oct 2012 09:55:38

[keybaud]

Quoting Roger Ford: 

So you think taking power from the IDE bus is better?

 

The linked cable takes the power feed from the IDE power connector.

[Roger Ford]

Ah yes, I see. Still no use with a laptop.

[keybaud]

Quoting Roger Ford: 

Ah yes, I see. Still no use with a laptop.

 

Touche. I missed that bit and should have known that Tyrone only has laptops...

[Tyrone]

It's a Toshiba Satellite 110CS and all the boys at work are laughing at it!

 

One small problem, it has no battery, so I'm going to need a very long power cable to map on the fly! 😬

 

It's working off the mains and it's running Windows 95. It has a floppy disk drive and two slots. So, if I have the right PCMIA Ethernet adapter I should be able to hardwire it to my router and download the MJ software on to the machine, shouldn't I

 

 

 

 

[peterg]

Quoting Tyrone: 

One small problem, it has no battery, so I'm going to need a very long power cable to map on the fly!

 

240v Power inverter with a cigarette plug (or crocodile clips) off the car battery would power that laptop

 

[Jonathan Kay]

I spy project creep.

 

Jonathan

[Roger Ford]

Quoting Tyrone: 

It's a Toshiba Satellite 110CS and all the boys at work are laughing at it!

 

...

It's working off the mains and it's running Windows 95. It has a floppy disk drive and two slots. So, if I have the right PCMIA Ethernet adapter I should be able to hardwire it to my router and download the MJ software on to the machine, shouldn't I

 

Have fun getting the drivers for the PCMCIA ethernet adapter onto it.