connected them with a Laplink parallel cable (I've still got a box of them).
On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Jules Richardson wrote:
Roughly what length are the cables? And do you know if they do anything special internally regarding shielding of the data lines?
They, and those of other similar products, were 3 to 6 feet long. There is no special shielding requirement up to about 10 feet, or unless you have extreme electrical noise next to them.
I think I should probably wire one up, and I have various old printer cables etc. laying around to use for donor parts, but I expect that data skew is a problem over any significant distance.
So, bring the two computers to within 10 feet of each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LapLink_cable Before MICROS~1 included an imitation in MS-DOS 6.00, . . . Traveling Software created "Laplink"
