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Hi there Toffler Family.....
The laptop is probably a good way to go. You
may even be able to run Laplink on it, although this depends mainly on the speed
of the laptop. I tried laplink on a Pentium 90 Toshiba laptop and found
that it would run laplink OK when booted from a DOS 6.22 floppy, however it
would not run laplink when the laptop was booted to DOS from Windows. An
800MHz laptop did not work at all.
The laplink from the ftp site should be fine for
this.
If you have an SRAM PCMCIA card, you could format
it on the PC3100 and then plug it into the laptop and transfer files, such as
Telix. Have tried this on an 800MHz laptop running Win2000 and it did work
(after the laptop loaded the drivers it needed).
If your PCMCIA card is a flash card, things may be
a little more complicated! If your PC3100 will not format or read the
flash card, you may need to load some special drivers on the PC3100. There
is a lot about this on Sven's PC3100 site and in the mailing list
archives.
I use a 32Mbyte Compact Flash card in my PC3100
with a compact flash to PCMCIA adaptor. This works well, but I had to load
some drivers on the PC3100 first so that it could access the card. The CF
card was $50 Australian from "Jaycar Electronics" and the adaptor was $8
Australian from www.flashmemory.com.au .
Note that you have to be very careful on the brand
of CF card as most will not work. The brand "Lead Data" from Jaycar works
in mine.
What type of PCMCIA cards do you have?
Are the flash or SRAM?
Can you format / read / write to them already on
the PC3100?
Cheers,
Glenn.
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