content: I was always a LapLink kind of guy myself, but I know what you are getting at. The parallel cable was pretty decent at making transfers, but when I got a Colorado Tracker Backpack portable tape drive at work, I got a huge boost in transfer speed when moving files between machines. It would be terribly slow by today's standards though. It's really amazing to me how far we've come in such a short period of time. It wasn't that long ago that 1 GB drives were new and amazing things and now we can transfer that amount of data in one second. In ten years 1 TB will seem so insignificant and we will wonder how we tolerated such cramped storage spaces. I do miss the simpler days sometimes, but I guess progress marches on.