oilyhands Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keybaud Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ford Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Ah yes, I see. Still no use with a laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keybaud Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrone Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterg Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted November 1, 2012 Member Share Posted November 1, 2012 I spy project creep. Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ford Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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