Re: Finally making use of PowerLisp despite several **horrible** bugs it has
- From: seeWebInstead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:24:56 -0700
I'm pretty sure my laptop doesn't have any SCSI card, and I don'tFrom: p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
think there's any room to fit it in there even if I had the money
to buy one, so that method wouldn't work for me.
My best bet for transferring large files (300-500k each) from my
Mac to the laptop would probably be to buy a new diskette drive for
the laptop, if I had the money,
Your best bet would be to use the serial interfaces. Find, buy or
make a serial cable.
None of those are options for me at this time.
Many years ago I had the money to buy the EIA 25-pin connectors, and
I had some scrap telephone wire, so I was able to make a modem cable.
But that's in storage, and it was for EIA at both ends, whereas
neither my Macintosh nor my laptop uses that kind of connector.
(Mac uses DIN, and laptop uses something else I can't figure out.)
Transfering 500KB at 112000 b/s takes about 45s.
If you have appropriate software at both ends, and the hardware
handshake is correct so that both ends believe the other end is
online.
With a serial connection, you will also be able to configure PPP
over it, and then share your Internet connection from the Mac, so
you don't need the modem in the laptop.
My Mac doesn't have any InterNet connection, and isn't capable of
it in the first place. 8 MB of RAM just isn't enough for any
off-the-shelf PPP service together with Web browser etc.
When I tried it in 1998, it thrashed so badly that it took 20
minutes to download just one Web page and 5 minutes just to scroll
locally when I clicked the MS-IE scroll bar with the mouse.
Now if I could simply connect the serial port of my laptop to the
external modem that I normally use with my Mac for VT-100 emulator,
I might be able to run PPP directly from my laptop. But I seem to
remember that I already tried connecting the serial port of the
laptop to the modem and running the VT100 emulator on the laptop,
and couldn't get it to work, not even dial the phone, so I don't
think I have the hardware expertise needed to connect the laptop
serial port to *anything* and make the connection work.
I wish there was somebody in the Sunnyvale area who knew Linux well
enough to show me how to diagnose whether the problem with the
modem is the modem itself or the OS, so I'd know whether it'd be
worth my time/energy to spend an hour each way commuting by public
transit to Fry's Electronics to buy a new modem that I can't afford
in the first place.
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