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sed3 on May 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop

This laptop has a serial port, I am pretty sure vanilla Mac is capable of transferring files over serial port. We did that on DOS all the the time.

ralphc on May 31, 2024 [–]

According to everymac.com it has a serial port but macs had odd port shapes that need a special cable.

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