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>Hi,
>I have a problem I hope you can help with.
>A friends daughter has a G4/400 and is going off to university. She
>wants an ultra cheap laptop for note taking in class and I have an
>old PB180 she could use. Problem is how to transfer files from the PB
>to the G4?
>She would like to do this without using a floppy disk.
>Ideas...
>Thanks in advance.
>Ray
I read others' responses after writing my own. Since there are more,
I'll post them anyway!
You could use a localtalk bridge (a hardware device) to make a localtalk
to ethernet connection. This would be easy if you had the bridge. The
cost about $100 new, but perhaps you could borrow one for the occasion!
[I have one here in Munich, but that's probably not convenient!]
(AsanteTalk is one; there have been others.)
You could e-mail the files in question. Could be slow and expensive.
If the G-4 has a SCSI card, you could start the PowerBook in SCSI slave
mode and use the G-4 to place the files she wants on the PB.
If someone knows how, you could use a "null modem cable" [in lieu of
modems and a real online connection] and transfer the files by a
communications program. I've never done this, so cannot describe details.
Or you could install the PB harddrive in the G-4 for purposes of
transferring files! (But I must admit this seems like true overkill!)
You could use a Zip drive or drives which could connect to both computers.
-- Jim Dwyer, Munich, Germany
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