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G6Tanuki · 27th Jun 2021, 5:19 pm

LapLink, Kermit [my favourite], or - if you are desperate - you could perhaps configure the serial port as a 'printer', then use a RS232/V.24 crossover-cable to connect to the serial-port of another computer.

I once did this when needing to recover files from a very old CP/M computer in some lab equipment that had originally driven a serially-connected daisywheel printer; setting the serial-port to 4800-baud let me use a 'modern' computer as the destination device, its serial interface and internal storage was fast enough that it could gobble a 4800-serial datastream without needing any flow-control.

27th Jun 2021, 5:19 pm	#10
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 14,007	Re: HP Vectra MK1 still alive: how to save texts ? LapLink, Kermit [my favourite], or - if you are desperate - you could perhaps configure the serial port as a 'printer', then use a RS232/V.24 crossover-cable to connect to the serial-port of another computer. I once did this when needing to recover files from a very old CP/M computer in some lab equipment that had originally driven a serially-connected daisywheel printer; setting the serial-port to 4800-baud let me use a 'modern' computer as the destination device, its serial interface and internal storage was fast enough that it could gobble a 4800-serial datastream without needing any flow-control.