"Mark Mossberg" writes:

It's allot easier to hook up multiple machines using a cheap hub, or switch.

If you're just hooking two machines together, you can use a Cat5
"crossover" cable, with no hub. This should be available at any
computer store (don't mix these up with regular Cat5 cables that
are used with hubs-- sometimes they're labeled, sometimes not).

If you don't have PCI slots, there are ISA network cards around,
but the local stores may not stock them, so you may have to get
one from ebay (I used to have one, but I think I sold it when I
got rid of my last ISA box).

I've done this with Win95, it's not too painful (although I only
did it long enough to transfer files to a newer machine). Disable
any protocols other than Netbui. Turn on file sharing for the
directories you want to transfer, and it "just works".