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Old 12-07-2013, 08:28 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Actually there was a common use for a PC to PC USB cable, copying data from an old to new PC using a product called LapLink. Originally it would have been a serial to serial, or parallel to parallel but as USB grew in popularity a USB to USB option was also available.
Like other USB networking products, those Laplink cables had some sort of 'thing' in the middle, and I always assumed that was some embedded device that both PCs connected to. Was it really a pure software solution that could have used a generic A-to-A cable?

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