Dino Thinkpad 760e.......Please help

[wdo]

I have an old Thinkpad 760e in working order. I don't know a whole lot about lappies so I could use some help. This lappy has a CD drive but no burner or USE ports. I would like the just use it for WP when on the road. It has Windows 98 and Office 2000 loaded. But how do I retreive data so that i can load it to my home machine? No burner or usb makes it impossible. Can I get a card (PCMCIA) so I could use a jump drive? I have seem cards that do that but they are type II. I don't know which type my lappy has. Thanks for your help.

 

[AnyMal]

Why not use the floppy drive?

 

[cy7878]

760E has a Pentium chip which will likely be TOO slow for XP, not to mention max mem support of about 128mb (if not 64). I suggest you keep thing the way it this because any money invested will not enhance the value of the laptop.

 

[Paperlantern]

Originally posted by: cy7878
760E has a Pentium chip which will likely be TOO slow for XP, not to mention max mem support of about 128mb (if not 64). I suggest you keep thing the way it this because any money invested will not enhance the value of the laptop.

what does that have to do with data transfer to another computer? and i dont think he asked if he could put XP on it... stick to the task at hand man 😉

Type II will work fine in your lappy, PCMCIA technology is very old, and type II is before your machines time so it should support it fine, type III probably woudlnt work though (for example, a xircom cardbus ethernet card), but any type I or II will be just fine.

 

[ultimatebob]

Just get a PCMCIA Ethernet card and a cable for it, and BOOM, instant file transfer goodness. You could probably get a PCMCIA USB adapter as well, and plug a slower USB CD burner into that.

 

[SilentVixen]

or get a pcmcia compact flash adaptor and BOOM 😉