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From: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Moving stuff from one machine to another
Message-ID: <485@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 05:30:30 GMT
Reply-To: joss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Organization: University of Rochester
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My father has finally upgraded his machine.  The old machine is an original
PC-1 with an add-on hard disk (those pre-XT machines didn't support hard
disks).  His new machine is an Televideo AT with both a 1.2M floppy and a
360K floppy.

Since the old machine has only 360K floppies, he would have to use that to
transport the stuff from his old non-DOS compatible hard disk to the new one,
but that's a bitch (40MB!) ... can anyone think of a better solution?  I have
already proven that it would be faster to use the floppy than to do an RS232
transfer, even at 19200 Kbaud.

It's unclear as to whether or not the old hard disk will work in the new
machine.  It's probably worth trying.  Any other suggestions are much
appreciated.

Please send replies by e-mail ... most people probably don't care how Dad gets
around this ... :-)

Josh
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