[DuoList] How do I get a file off a 2400c w/ no disk or ZIP drives?

[Brandy]

Pick up a PC netowork card, 16 bit if your not Cardbus enabled.(They are 
cheap)  The you should be abole to tap the network at school or at least 
send the doc somewhere else Via email.

Brandy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iman Bhullar" <imansingh at yahoo.com>
To: <duolist at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:39 PM
Subject: [DuoList] How do I get a file off a 2400c w/ no disk or ZIP drives?


>I have my thesis on a 2400c I've had for years. It has
> no modem, no disk drive and no CD. There's no way to
> get files on or off except through an external ZIP
> drive. The zip drive isn't working anymore (just
> happened today - why does it always happen when you
> need the thing the most?!!). I'm not sure what's
> wrong. I click on the "Iomega ZIP drive" icon and the
> computer freezes up until I unplug the drive. After I
> unplug the drive from the computer, it unfreezes gives
> me an error "No Iomega drives available."
>
> The problem is that I have a 75 page thesis on the
> computer that I've finished (well, almost) and I have
> to get it off to my professor by tomorrow (it's
> already a bit late). I'm thinking of just transcribing
> the whole thing from the laptop to one of the
> university computers, but that will take all day.
>
> Any suggestions? I was thinking about trying to
> connect it to a printer, but I can't load the printer
> drivers onto it (no way to get files on or off). The
> only drivers it has are what it came with back in '97
> or whatever. Also, I don't have the necessary cable.
> All I have is one that connects the SCSI Zip to the
> laptop.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can get the file off without
> transcribing it? According to the help menu, it says I
> can use my laptop as a SCSI drive - meaning I can
> connect it to another computer's SCSI port and
> transfer files - but the help menu is utterly
> unhelpful in telling you how to go about doing this.
> Any ideas?
>
> The laptop has an infared port. How does that work? Do
> they still make laptops with those?
>
> I think I'm going to have to start transcribing.
>
>
>
>
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