What kind of cable do I need to transfer data from one comp to another?

[Apple]

Topic says it all, I'd like to avoid making 6 CD-Rs of my MP3s.

 

[AndyHui]

Serial, parallel, USB....all 3 are suitable, although without Laplink, serial and parallel using DirectCC under Win9x can be a little fiddly.

The easiest way is to have a network.

 

[flood]

I'll list them from slowest to fastest:

null-modem cable (serial to serial->make sure your serial port speeds in device manager are set to the max)
male/male parallel cable (parallel to parallel... make sure you get a cable with 25 individual conductors)
usb/usb cable (last i saw, one of these was about $40)
you could pick up a pair of 10/100 network cards and a crossover cable
the fastest option would be to remove the hard drive from one computer and stick it in the other (you'd need an ide cable in that case)

 

[BurntKooshie]

I do that last option all the time. I'm just too lazy to set up networks 'n stuff....