d3500ram wrote:
Why finesse it with hardware when you can club it to death with software?
LapLink
Folks- chime in more about this. The website looks as if this is a program that I buy and download which mitigates exactly the format of one PC to another, essentially a snapshot of old to new. This is interesting. I need to read more into the features, but can the data be dropped to an external hard drive instead of an actual computer?
I do not want to do a direct replacement as I have stuff already going on the new computer.
FJ - I haven't used LapLink for years, so I'm not familiar how it works now. It was originally created to transfer files between IBM PC computers via a null modem serial cable. Drives A&B on the source machine became drives C&D on the target.
Strangely enough, the software lab I was working at invented this as a means to copy files from 5-1/4 inch floppies to the 3-1/2 inch floppies in the clone we were building in 1983. Back then, no one was producing software on 3-1/2. When that company folded (because no one was putting software on 3-1/2), one of the engineers took the code and started LapLink.
