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A laptop from 20 years ago would almost certainly have USB ports. The first computer I saw them on was a Sony VAIO in 1997. Compaq was also sporting them at the
by WWLink 4y ago
A laptop from 20 years ago would almost certainly have USB ports. The first computer I saw them on was a Sony VAIO in 1997. Compaq was also sporting them at the time, and of course Apple heavily adopted them in 1998. By 2000, practically every computer had them. Yes a USB stick should work with those.
USB floppy drives can still be purchased, and will generally work with anything, including android phones lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1l8Dcjb1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1l8Dcjb1Y
- dredmorbius 4y agoIt would also have had an ethernet port, quite probably a modem port, and possibly parallel and/or serial ports. Perhaps a PCMCIA slot as well. It's possible to establish file transfer and networking over any of these. I bootstrapped one installation, on an early 1990s laptop, using a null-modem cable and at zmodem transfers by pasting DEB archives and tarballs into Minicom. Once I had enough built up, I could set up first SLIP (at 57 kbps), and later PLIP networking, natted through my desktop. That box served as a firewall for a few years until it finally fried.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoInteresting. At 1.4 Million views, I wonder how much revenue the poster made by stretching the video out to to 12 minutes by adding so much filler when it could have just been 2 minutes long. I wonder how many manhours in total of people's lives that content-producer destroyed for a few extra bucks. (Over 31 manyears wasted watching that video, what a shame. That's longer than some people live.)