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I don't know how old I appear, but I'm currently 34.
I've been using computers since I was seven or eight years old, which is quite early for someone my age 
I think I was the only one at my school who had his own computer.
All the other kids had a shared family computer if they had a computer at all.
Good old days when my uncle got me Warez(?) CDs, illegally downloaded games with movies taken out so more games would fit on a single CD
I remember playing one of those games later and finding out it had cutscenes 
That's how I discovered Age of Empires!
Also had lots of demo CDs back then, they came with my monthly PC Zone Benelux subscription (they went bankrupt some 15 years ago, I think).
People download their own illegal stuff now, and companies don't do demos anymore.
Those were the days
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You're a baby, built my first computer (actually wire wrapped most of the boards) back in 78.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've been using computers since I was seven or eight years old, which is quite early for someone my age
Correction: You were knowingly using computers from you were seven or eight year old. At that time, even two year olds were using computers regularly, but they didn't think of them as such. Embedded computers were all over the place, even in those days.
At the time when you were seven or eight, I was regularly in contact with (and made a few tools for) visually handicapped kids. When their classmates learned to write A, B, C with a pencil, they learned to write A, B, C on their keyboard, using WordPerfect. The first graders never related to it as 'using a computer', but as a writing tool.
They also used 'bulletin boards' (using modems, at 300 bps) to communicate in writing with their friends, not thinking of it as using the internet - which it technically wasn't, but when internet gradually took over, they hardly noticed the technology change. They had known the functionality for years.
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I remember the double density upgrade on an Osborne "luggable" -- 180K. And Turbo Pascal rev 1.0; fitting editor, compiler, debugger all on one disk was a big improvement over previous compiler (name forgotten) on one floppy, Wordstar on the other....
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Sander Rossel wrote: Why would you even want to return to such brutal methods in the age of fast internet?
I have files that I do not want on the internet, so using it as an intermediary is not acceptable.
OTOH, I pay for the MS 365 subscription and have the files that don't matter in OneDrive, so they are accessible on my desktop, laptop, and phone.
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To me, that argument makes perfect sense.
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Maybe LapLink, using a serial cable or special cable to link two printer ports?
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When I was teaching at a Tech. College in the early 1990s, one of the student exercises were implementing a simplified Kermit over a serial line between two PCs. The first part of the exercise was soldering a null modem cable. This was commonly known among the lecturers as The exercise that the students would remember, and come back to the lecturers to thank them for providing, many years later. The students learned a lot about communication, synchronization, debugging of distributed systems, ... Even though the setup was very simple, all the elements were there.
At that time, I also learned that the oil company of the Norwegian state (it has been renamed a few times; I think it was named Statoil back then) actually used Kermit for transferring data from their 'technical', VAX based systems, to their 'administrative', IBM mainframe based systems holding their huge databases. They had made several unsuccessful attempts at finding some protocol implementation for direct VAX to IBM communication, but both companies were famous for their 'Protocol xyz with a twist' policy, using that 'twist' as a wrench to force their customers into obedience. But both were willing to pass files to/from PCs (of their own DOS variants, of course), and both PCs were capable of running Kermit over a null modem cable. When I visited them with a group of students, they proudly showed us the two PCs, side by side on a small desk, running as "modems" between this huge IBM mainframe and this powerful top-range VAX, transferring data at 19.2 kbps 24/7.
Bottom line: Kermit may be an alternative. It has been used for such purposes by billion-dollar companies.
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I used a product called LapLink long ago, with special blue or yellow cables, depending on serial or parallel.
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Share a folder and use a network cable
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Not an RJ45 connector on the MacBook Air. Not sure where to find its network cable.
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Yay! This worked. Could transfer almost instantaneously. Thanks a lot.
How do I double-upvote this?
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A happy reply is worth ten upvotes. 
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USB To Ethernet Adapter optional?
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Perhaps a USB/RJ45 adapter?
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I created a "subnet" and I connect to my headless mac mini via ethernet & vnc.
However, the setup also allows me to just connect directly & drop files on the mac mini like a file storage unit.
I wrote up how I set it up at: macbook pro - Is is possible to use remote desktop to a Mac via direct cable or wireless? - Ask Different[^]
This talks about the RDP but it also explains the settings that work to connect with ethernet. It should get you there.
good luck
the write-up has screen shots for both sides of the setup (windows & mac) so it should help.
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Very detailed. Will try it out. Thanks.
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USB jump drive?
You might need some sort of hub or cable to use as an adapter.
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LapLink!!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Ye gods.
"Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time... a long time."
Software Zen: delete this;
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Make sure to use the parallel port adapter and not the serial port adapter! Guaranteed 8 times faster.
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Which computer has a parallel adapter nowadays?
Several years ago, I dug up some old serial port equipment, for plugging it into my computer. I searched it all over, but couldn't find the serial port. The computer was a couple years old. I had owned it for more than two years without noticing that it didn't have an RS232 serial port! (Later, I discovered that the mainboard actually had a COM1 header, so I could have plugged in an old bracket with a 9-pin RS232 socket from one of my old, discarded PCs, but at that time I had found alternate solutions.)
To find a PC with a parallel port, I will have to visit the museum part of my old PC collection. They never ran anything but DOS.
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