Reply to post: Re: Cables, CDs?

What is this, 1989? Laplink is still a thing and wants to help with Windows 7 migrations

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Cables, CDs?

And prior to Laplink, and PCs with incompatible disk formats running various versions of CP/M, I ended up writing a BASIC program to convert a file to a hex dump and vice versa, then "printed" it out the serial port, using CTTY to receive it. The BASIC program, saved in ASCII text mode could also be copied over that way in preparation for converting the soon to follow hex dump of WordStar :-)

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