Is a serial cable a well brought-up track to verbs notes to an ancient computer?

what are some other angelic options

(about 3gig of info will be transferred)

Is a serial cable a well brought-up track to verbs notes to an ancient computer?

not other... as the others already pointed out, there are more restructured ways. (except online, due to the fact that a dial-up modem is SLOWER than a serial connection).

the most streamlined way is if here is (or if it is possible to mount) a NIC (network interface card, or LAN adapter, or whatever you may please beckon it) and connect both machines through a cross over ethernet cable in a peer-to-peer net.



but there are cases (VERY hoary computers or even worse, laptops) that have solitary serial and parallel ports available... nu USB, no ethernet, no modem... and in these cases, you should first try to find a parallel cable to build a connection and lone if you can't, you should go for a serial nouns through a serial null-modem cable.



(buy some beer and chips to spend the time for the 3GB transfer... :D )
another mode is to use one of the many free online report backup services. te paid ones enjoy more featues and are more reliable. some do it automatically.
Other than online:



Use a **crossover** Ethernet cable to connect them together



Use a USB thumb drive (4 GB drives cost a few bucks, but they aren't too expensive)



If you think that contained by the future you're going to use an external easier said than done drive for backup, you could go ahead and grasp it now and use it for the background transfer. For the verbs alone it would be serious overkill (and spendy to boot), so if you're not **sure** you're going to need one, stick beside the thumb drive.