You can have cheap or efficient, but not both.

So....it depends on how much data you have to transfer and how often. A few megabytes a month, a laplink program and a cable work fine, but not real fast or efficiently. A few megabytes a day, then a network card in each and setup a small network. If your data is in chunks of 1 megabyte or less, A floppy disk is real cheap, but not very efficient. If you are looking at a few Gigabytes a day, maybe a removable hard drive would be OK.

 

Perhaps I was not too clear. I have files and folders to transfer to the new machine, then remove from the old machine before I part with it. Its a one time transfer. I need to be able to select folders or files.

 

You can hook two comps together with the serial cable, but you will also need a thing called a null modem to put on the end of the cable. it switches the pairs around so the comps can talk to each other. you also have to add a "device=c:dosinterlnk.exe" to both comps config.sys file, and to make it work, one comp should stay in DOS, then at the prompt type intersvr, and that comp will be the sever comp, and the other one you can run windows on it and copy your files. it's slow, the fastest I've had it was 115k, so it's a lot like downloading off the net.