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| 395798 | 2005-10-13 06:25:00 | I have been given a Toshiba T1960TC laptop (circa.1990). I have given it a scandsk & defrag and it appears to be in excellent condition. Windows 3.11 installed. It may be some use to me if I can get it networked to my win2000 pro comp on my LAN. It has an ethernet adapter with 2 small flat sockets. 1 with 9 pins the other with 6. Can anyone give me any help or should I dump it. Ian |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 395799 | 2005-10-14 03:39:00 | Still hoping for some info. I've been googling around and found more background. CPU Intel i486Dx2 50Mhz Memory 4Mb + 4 mb add on card OS Windows for Workgroup released Feb 1994. Ethernet card but not with Cat5 socket. Instead has those sockets 9 & 6 Pin. What are they called and is there any around nowdays. It also has a printer port and a male & female serial port. Is it possible to connect to another comp by serial or printer port for file transfer. thanks in advance for any info Ian |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 395800 | 2005-10-14 06:30:00 | laplink is a serial to serial data transfer program for 3.11 but if it is still available. Might be easier to use a "sneaker net" (if you know that term welcome to my generation :D) they were all the rage in the days of 3.11 it involved sneakers and a pile of floppy disks and some walking. |
beama (111) | ||
| 395801 | 2005-10-14 06:48:00 | I've done the sneaker.net before and I still do it but with CDs I was hoping the laptop might eliminate the aggro. This Toshiba Laptop is in top condition, looks like its hardly been used seems a pity to scrap it. Anyone know of a linux distro that will fit on a 256Mb hard drive. Ian |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 395802 | 2005-10-15 00:14:00 | The odd 9 and 6 pin connectors might work together to make up the 15 pins of an AUI connector . AUI was the connection for a transceiver (originally to "thick Ethernet" cable, but you can find transceivers for twisted pair -- RJ45, and "thin Ethernet" -- BNC . ) Laplink works well, and the cables are available still . You can find the pinout and make a serial cable very easily . There is a MS equivalent in some versiions of DOS and Windows . Hunt around and see if you can find the Simtel archive . That had lots of networking stuff for DOS and Windows 3 . xx . I've got one iterm which will only be taken with difficulty from my dead fingers: a parallel port Ethernet adaptor . It only does about 100 kbps, but it works . :D You could run only a command line Linux in 8MB (assuming you have the addon card) . I've got Linux on a 6MB, 40MB disk 386SX20 . That's an early Slackware from a 1990 magazine CD . There are Ethernet workarounds for parallel and serial ports . . . PLIP, and SLIP, but they seem to have disappeared . The simplest approach might be to run a Web server on the fast computer, and run a browser on the laptop . Look for the Arachne browser . Or FTP . . . You might find a version of Kermit which runs on the newer Windows versions . That's a good old reliable file transfer programme from Columbia University . Another possibility would be to run a terminal emulator on both . . . Conex is a free one which has file transfer capability . I think even Hyperterminal has a primitive file capture miode . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 395803 | 2005-10-15 06:08:00 | Thanks for the info Graham. I'll do some more googling. I tried to do some file transfering via the sneaker.net and was suprised to find that the only file extensions recognised by windows 3.11 that I've found so far are .exe .bmp .hlp tmp & dll, not even the .doc so it could be a waste of time even if I get it working. I will have to get a more modern OS to be any use. Thanks again for your trouble. Ian |
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