[Web4lib] SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC - HOW TO CONNECT AN OLD PC TOOURINTERNET CONNECTION? -thanks and clarification

[David Jones]

>>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2007 at 12:16 PM, "Frances, Melodie" <mfrances at gtu.edu> wrote: 
> old monitors and cpus - which is why I was hoping for a nice small
> adaptor solution - also, I will probably want to use the old old pc
> again in the future so I wanted an easy SMALL permanent solution. 

It won't help you if you want to continue to use the old PC with ethernet, but you could get an IDE to USB adapter:

http://eshop.macsales.com/search/NWTU2NVSPATARH

I've been very happy with it and have used it quite extensively to get data off of old hard drives. Most of the new computers we get don't have IDE adapters, so this let's me access IDE drives on SATA-only and laptop computers with a USB port.

If you have to keep using the old computer, a PCI (or <shudder>ISA</shudder>) ethernet adapter is the way to go and they should be really cheap used.

HTH,
David


_____________________________________________________________________
David Jones                                     mailto:djones at scu.edu
Library Systems Manager                  http://www.scu.edu/library/
University Library                               fax:   408-551-1805
Santa Clara University                            phone: 408-551-7167
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara CA 95053-0500
_____________________________________________________________________
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick