Re:File transfers via the parallel port on DOS using LapLink
by 1970-01-01 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:01AM
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LapLink was a great idea and solved a very real problem: You could not copy large files (anything larger than 1.44MB) around without this, tape, or modem (and when it worked you felt it was finally time to build that Ethernet network).
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Re:File transfers via the parallel port on DOS using LapLink
by ridgered4 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:49PM
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I remember using pkzip's spanning feature to transport MP3 files home from school with a few floppies. I certainly would have preferred using something more like laplink in that case.
There was a very weird period of time there where floppy drives stopped advancing in capacity but the average file size had continued to outgrown them for years. I remember the iomega zip disks, despite their faults, actually showing up in a lot computer labs before flash drives finally buried them.