Thinkpads Forum

I recently purchased a Thinkpad 701c just for the fun of it. Since it is so portable, I am thinking of using it for occasional wordprocessing in addition to my Thinkpad T60.

I'm trying to figure out the best/easiest way to transfer data files between these machines.

I understand that a PCMCIA USB Cardbus will not work in my 486 701C. Is that correct?

Would a PCMCIA hard drive work to move back and forth between computers?

Would a PCMCIA card reader for a SD, XD or Compact flash card memory work?

How about infrared transfer between a 701C running Win95 and a T60 running WinXP?

I have a floppy drive with the Thinkpad 701c with the Thinkpad proprietary cable. So, I could get a USB floppy drive and move data that way.

Would it be possible to purchase a converter cable (Thinkpad proprietary to USB) so that I wouldn’t have to carry two floppy drives around with me?

Any other recommendations on data transfer from a Thinkpad butterfly?

Thanks,

FRANK
Baertracks

baertracks wrote:Any other recommendations on data transfer from a Thinkpad butterfly?

Network them Frank!

James

if yr t60 has a serial port, you could hook 'em up with a
so-called "laplink cable," and use kermit. The cable is easy to
make, and kermit is free.

tom lightbody wrote:if yr t60 has a serial port, you could hook 'em up with "laplink cable"

Thanks! I'll give networking and laplinking some thought. It's been ten years since I've laplinked anything, but I think I still have a cable around here somewhere.

FRANK

The T60 has no serial or parallel port, unless you use a dock.

The easiest (and fastest!) method is to get a wired network card for the 701C. Second fastest would be WiFi.

An external hard drive can work. You can use a PCMCIA or PCCard USB card if you can find one. That might be easy, or possible. CardBus will not work.

Third fastest would probably be via parallel cable. Windows 95 and later have parallel/serial networking, very similar to LapLink.

Next would be a card reader (if the cards a nice and large), which should work just fine in the 701C.

IR should work, as would a floppy, and you cannot convert the two floppy drive types.

As mentioned earlier, through ethernet connection will be the fastest.
I used it myself to connect my macbook and thinkpad. What I did was set a static ip on my macbook and enabling windows sharing. I connected the computers through an ethernet cable and on windows I right clicked on "my computer" and added a network location there (in my case: \\169.254.1.1\sharename).
I get speeds up to 7Mbps if I'm right.

I now connect the 2 using firewire as this is faster (get up till 14Mbps I think). This uses the same procedure except you don't connect to the other computer using the lan-connection but the 1394-connection.
I don't however know if a 701C even has firewire.

SD card is cheap and convenient, forget the fragile floppy disc

I would like to recommend a SD=>CF=>PCMCIA adapter, like this http://m2xrain.googlepages.com/sd%3D%3E ... 5%E5%99%A8

all my gadget like treo smartphone , palm pda, HP jornada, X22, A30 could share data easily.

I've got exactly the same problems as baertracks just with a T43p. My current method is T43p > usbdrive > Desktop > floppy > 701cs. But that just really sucks!

If there is the possibilty to do ist otherwise I'd quite welcome it.
At the moment I'm trying to scource the old pcmcia network card I know is somewhere.
But if cf adapters would work in the 701cs, that would be great.

DarkMark wrote:At the moment I'm trying to scource the old pcmcia network card I know is somewhere.

Search ebay.de for a Xircom 10MBit or Orinoco Gold ethernet card.

Both are non-Cardbus and should be widely available for very little money.

James

Well I know there is an old 3com card somewhere in the house, I just can't find it, and see If it works.