LapLink, InterLink and the Cable Wars

Before USB sticks and the cloud: two PCs, a braided DB25 cable and Norton Commander — the art of moving 20 MB across a room at printer-port speed.

Playlist by @parallel_port_history

8 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. What File Sharing and Printing Were LIke In The 1980s With the Original IBM PC — NCommander
2. Too big for a floppy? Use a Parallel Cable! — Rapidly Ageing Technology
3. Seriell and Parallel-port communication. LapLink — Retro Erik
4. Transferring Files in Windows 95 through Parallel and Infrared Ports, and a Makeshift LAN — Kugee
5. Using Laplink to Backup a 486 Laptop to a Windows 10 Machine — TME Retro
6. Rescuing Data Over IEEE 1284 Parallel Port Using Norton Commander (DOS to Windows 98) — Tek4You
7. File Transfer Over Parallel Port For Retro Computing - LapLink V Software Demo — Smith Kerona
8. LapLink 5 remote install from plain DOS prompt — fragglet