Sharkey, I'd suggest running a cross-over (2-way!) aethernet cable between two computers and set up file-sharing between them (a very small LAN). I'm linking PCs and Macs and it is somewhat problematical (I'm NOT a computer-person) but files put into a folder on one machine can be accessed by the other. Years ago I used a program called LapLink, which contained a serial cable, and it would link computers in a similar way, so that files could be copied or even worked on from another machine. I hope that you can retrieve that data! Carolly