I hope parallel ports won't become obsolete

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toshiba satellite.....low-end, can't remember the model offhand but its
a 4-digit number
beginning with 2.
 
mormave wrote:
[no pcmcia card slots]
toshiba satellite.....low-end, can't remember the model offhand but
its a 4-digit number beginning with 2.
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Tosh satellite 2130 was a 486/dx4-75 ..... but that had 2 pc card slots.
 
mormave said:
Buying a usb zip drive is another possibility i hadn't thought of,
though i'm not sure it will be backwardly compatible with 100mg disks,
though probably they are.
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If you go that route, try to find a 100MB drive. The backwards
compatibility with the larger drives and 100MB disks is rather spotty
(reading is fine, writing is very slow, long formatting is not
possible).
 
I may have been wrong about that....I'll have to look at the notebook
again. It's definitely above a 486...it's a pentium with an AMD cpu .


Mike said:
mormave wrote:
[no pcmcia card slots]
toshiba satellite.....low-end, can't remember the model offhand but
its a 4-digit number beginning with 2.
Click to expand...

Tosh satellite 2130 was a 486/dx4-75 ..... but that had 2 pc card slots.
Click to expand...
 
So does my 5-year-old Compaq notebook. I have a Linksys PCMCIA wireless card
in this baby, but you don't need to get that fancy. You could run a network
cable from a router into it too.
 
I have an MSI K8N Neo4 Model:MS-7125 motherboard that's based on the
NForce 4 chipset that has 1 com port and a parallel port onboard.

Those ports are totally useless to me these days but there still
available on most new motherboards at least for a couple of years.
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I admit I'm not that familiar with newer/better stuff, but here are
examples of such mobos with neither of those ports:

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D: http://tinyurl.com/dhml9

AOpen i915GMm-HFS: http://tinyurl.com/9ejdr
 
mormave said:
So, any new pc
I buy is going to have to have PP's, or else i'm going to have to find
some kind of adaptor for the new pc to be able to use the PP zip drive
on the new pc's.
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New Zip drives are USB, need no external power supply, and will happily
read and write your existing Zip disks.
 
Yes, most computers still come with the port you need. However, mos
gamer motherboards don't

More pressing, is the health of your equipment. I would imagine zi
disk drives are still being sold

I recommend you transfer that data to CD or DVD as soon as possible

Also, a trip to tiger direct would probably yeild you many add i
cards that carry the port. I don't recommend a USB adapter. I fin
these don't work
 
Lots of helpful replies here. BTW, yes, my old notebook does have
pcmcia slots. I've always ignored them...never a need for them and i've
never read anything in the past about their use . Now that I realize I
have them, what kinds of things can I do with them? From this thread,
i see I can insert a network card to transfer the files to my "new" pc
(which I'll get in about one year, which by that time may not have a
ParallelPort). What else is the pcmcia slot for: adding memory?
external HD?
 
You better check what the slot really is. Pcmcia is long gone,
the only cards you can get are PC Card / Cardbus, the 32-bit replacement.

They offer the same function as PCI cards.
 
Eric Gisin said:
You better check what the slot really is. Pcmcia
is long gone, the only cards you can get are PC
Card / Cardbus, the 32-bit replacement.
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Thats not true of used cards off ebay.
They offer the same function as PCI cards.
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Almost anything except memory.
 
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