Twospruces
Veteran Member
hi,
I am contemplating using Laplink to make transferring software over to my old Zenith Z171 (5.25 floppies) a bit easier.
I believe you need to run Laplink software on both ends of the transfer serial cable - the target Zenith laptop and my PC sitting nearby.
I think it is clear that I can use Laplink 2.x vintage software on the Zenith. (in fact it was bundled with my Sharp PC-6220 laptop as well).
But, what to use on the PC?
* could use laplink 2.x if I was willing to boot my network attached PC into DOS. A bit inconvenient
* Windows XP is in use on that PC, or better still Ubuntu on another.
Would Laplink Gold work on Windows XP in this case?
Should I run something like a DOS emulator on either the Windows machine or the Linux machine?
I suppose that is the best answer. Any experiences with this would be helpful. thanks.
I am contemplating using Laplink to make transferring software over to my old Zenith Z171 (5.25 floppies) a bit easier.
I believe you need to run Laplink software on both ends of the transfer serial cable - the target Zenith laptop and my PC sitting nearby.
I think it is clear that I can use Laplink 2.x vintage software on the Zenith. (in fact it was bundled with my Sharp PC-6220 laptop as well).
But, what to use on the PC?
* could use laplink 2.x if I was willing to boot my network attached PC into DOS. A bit inconvenient
* Windows XP is in use on that PC, or better still Ubuntu on another.
Would Laplink Gold work on Windows XP in this case?
Should I run something like a DOS emulator on either the Windows machine or the Linux machine?
I suppose that is the best answer. Any experiences with this would be helpful. thanks.