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My best use of LapLink was as a teen helping migrate a library off an old system. I think it was using NetWare 2.x with some DOS emulation for a library card ca
by hed 4y ago
My best use of LapLink was as a teen helping migrate a library off an old system. I think it was using NetWare 2.x with some DOS emulation for a library card catalog. Couldn't get it to talk IPX to the existing NetWare stuff (5.x) we were migrating to. But the DOS emulation was complete enough for us to install LapLink and bring over the files for the program!
I still have the yellow parallel cable and blue serial cables at my parents' house.
Also pretty sure I used the blue cable to do Command & Conquer over null modem to the next room at home before I figured out how to install IPX/SPX and get the machines to talk over the 10Base2 that was between them.
- hilbert42 4y ago"I still have the yellow parallel cable and blue serial cables at my parents' house" I still have both cables and they reside in my miscellaneous computer cables box (as opposed to the box of regularly used cables). I still consider LapLink (the software I also have) as a viable maintenance tool for when I have to occasionally maintain old DOS or Win 3.1 machines (surprisingly there are still some about including several that I own). Recently, I came close to chucking them out but stopped short of doing that after I had to find some old files still stored on floppies and for doing that the quickest method was to use the DOS machine. (Logic dictated that if I still used a machine then it made sense to keep its maintenance tools.)