Hypothetical Question: If two trains leave the station at the same time, one travelling at 50 mph, and the other at 75 mph...what happens when a cat crosses the tracks 3 miles from the station in 10 minutes?

Answer: Nothing.

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Real Question: If I want to access data on an old laptop that (1) no longer has internet access (2) has no floppy drive (3) is on Windows 98 which doesn't support a SanDisk Mini Cruzer (4) won't read my printer driver CD....

How can I get the data off without retyping everything by hand or buying an attachable floppy or other equipment?

Notes:

- The data really is worth the effort. It's covers my work from 2000 to end of 2003. Enough said.

- SanDisk has a small driver I can download from the Internet to install on the computer, that makes it possible to use SanDisk with Win 98. But I don't have a way to get the driver onto the laptop...

- For some reason I can't figure out, I can't save data to any CDs I try.

Options, all of which feel like a Royal Pain, isn't there an easier way?

- Reinstate connectivity to the internet. It's doesn't have wireless so I need to find a cable and probably jig around with IP addresses.

- Network my two laptops somehow and theoretically just drag and drop the data to my new laptop.

Sigh. I seem to know enough to know it should be easy, and that's it.

Any suggestions or helpful folk willing to help detangle this knot? Reward: Really cool data released from captivity equals some cool new blog posts that include graphs and case studies...