what is the precursor to a flash drive?

[grasswire]

I have an older laptop and I have a newer laptop. I want to incorporate images from the newer laptop into the great publishing software that is on the older laptop. It appears that a flash drive will not work on the older laptop -- too much juice or something.

So what did people use to transfer data prior to flash drives?

Anyone?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. CD-Rs

:shrug:

[REP]

2. Firewire

[krispos42]

3. It might be easier to email them to yourself via the internet.

Use a zip program (FileZip is free) and compress them into email-friendly sizes, then email them to yourself.

[pokerfan]

4. Do they both have ethernet?

CAT5 (Ethernet) crossover cable: http://www.atpm.com/network/setup/ethernet_crossover.html

[grasswire]

5. interesting

I can't be the only one who wants to move images from old technology to new. I might just be the least apt. :-)

[pokerfan]

7. It's a very common problem

Especially when dealing with legacy hardware. You just need to determine if the computers share any interfaces in common. It used to be that there was always a parallel printer port which would work fine if somewhat slowly. Same thing for the standard nine-pin serial port. Trouble is that those ports have all been replaced with USB connectors on modern systems. On desktops, I would just pull the hard drive and install it on the new machine. Trouble was my last upgrade involved an PATA drive and new systems are all SATA. So that's why I suggested Ethernet and a crossover cable. Or you could do it with standard cables and a $20 router. The Ethernet (RJ-45) looks something like a big telephone jack.

[fishwax]

6. what kind of drives does the old laptop have? CD? Do both laptops have wireless?

If I understand you right, you want to get the images to the old laptop--If the old laptop has a CD drive you might could burn a CD with your new laptop. If the old laptop can access the internet you could email the files to yourself (as someone else said) or you could set up a home network and put the files that you want to move from one computer to the other in a shared folder.

[csziggy]

8. Floppies, ZIP drives, CDRs, DVDRs, the internet, email

If either computer still has a floppy drive, you can transfer as much as 1.3 MB at a time!

I doubt any ZIP drives still work, even if you could find the media.

CDRs can transfer 700MB. DVDRs can transfer over 4 GB. File sharing sites will let you upload, then download large files. Or if nothing else, email the images to yourself and download the email on the other computer. But email often has size limitations.

The methods above are all ones I have used over the years - except I never actually owned a ZIP drive.

[snooper2]

9. I've got one I'll sell ya..250MB

Along with a box of iomega 250MB zip disks.. :)

[csziggy]

10. RFLOL! Back in 1997 when I upgraded my computer

I had a choice of getting a ZIP drive with it or waiting two months and getting a CD burner. I got the CD burner and have never regretted. The CDRs I burned back then are still readable, though I have transferred and backed up the data to newer CDRs. I am really big into redundancy - the more times I save to CDR, the less chance the data will be lost.

A friend who criticized me for that choice lost all his data because he saved directly to ZIP and did not use any other method to back up his data. When his ZIP drive got the "click of death" he kept trying different disks to see if they would work. :eyes:

[snooper2]

12. I guess it tells ya I need to clean my cube..

When I saw winzip I remembered I have two disks sitting up on top of some Lucent manuals behind me and other crap in a box.

One of the disks is labeled OS-Win NT Application- Lotus Notes mail files 02-99
:rofl:

They are in the trash now- it's a start :)

[csziggy]

13. Don't feel bad - Dad still has several floppy files of Commodore 5.25" floppies

Sitting on his desk.

Years ago I offered to transfer them to PC readable floppies. I had gotten a Commodore floppy drive and found software that allowed a PC to read the disks. He waited five years before he asked me to actually do it - by the I had traded off the Commodore drive and the software was no longer available on the internet.

I don't think he needs the data anymore.

[Betty88]

11. if you already have a router

then you can set up a simple home network and share the files. A little googling should do the trick its really not that hard. Also a nice place to get info is youtube lots of people make video how tos check out something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNHBeKGIxiI