Re: Accessing data on Acernote light

LilaDuncan <LilaDuncan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: Good Man wrote:

: > and you mentioned that "I'd
: > also like to make this old laptop functional. "
: >
: > how functional is a laptop in this age with no Ethernet or USB? functional
: > for what exactly? checking your email with a dial-up modem?

: Thanks, Yes. I will add an Ethernet card. Is it possible to add a
: writeable CD drive or USB ports via a PC card?

Careful. While you can get USB cards for a PC Card (aka PCMCIA) slot,
they are likely "Cardbus" standard that may not work in older laptops
such as, perhaps, yours. You didn't say what OS this laptop has, but
if it is Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, USB won't be supported at all, and
you may have trouble getting drivers to work even for an Ethernet PC
Card you buy.

Your laptop probably does have a serial port. There are ways to
connect up two computers via the serial ports and copy files, etc. Do
some googling on that - try searching for "serial port cable
connection" or something like that.

Just to get files off the hard drive, the easiest solution might be to
buy a USB hard drive enclosure, take the hard drive out, and plug the
USB/drive enclosure with drive in it into another computer and just
read the files off of it.

Andrew
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