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Post #9 by Trash80toHP_Mini
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateSun, 1 Jan 2012 - 18:37
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/retrieving-data-from-a-non-ethernet-se-30.24456/
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Serial Mac to Serial PC works fine with a crossover cable, I've done it, run a terminal program on both and you should be able to transfer your files . . .

. . . who really cares how long such a transfer takes? ;)

IIRC, you can do modem to modem the same way with the proper cable pinout, but I've never done that. If you have access to two phone lines or a friend or a pair of friends with wired telephones, you can use the modems do do a ZTerm x-fer directly, circumventing the need for a dialup account.

My favorite cross-platform and cross generational Mac option is the ZIP Drive, I think I paid about $3 ea. for three USB versions at thrifts. I still have my two original drives from their first release. That's probably the easiest SneakerNet solution available, unless you have a SCSI CD Burner.

I've got two or three extra SE/30/IIsi EtherNet Cards if you want to borrow one, but finding a pair of ZIP drives and a disk would cost less, or ever so slightly more, than shipping the card both ways. Since you might have a PC SCSI Card, you should only need one SCSI ZIP. They also came in parallel port configuration, IIRC.

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