I recently purchased a Thinkpad 560e (p166) on ebay for really cheap to use in college for taking notes and maybe playing a few older games. It came with a fresh install of Win 98, but now I have no way of transferring files to/from the laptop.

There is no cdrom or floppy drive. I have no way to use the infrared with anybody else's laptop or any other device. I have a Direct Connect cable but windows does not have the support for it installed so I don't think I can use that. I do have a pcmcia network card but I plug it in and Windows doesn't recognize it (I also tried another, brand new, wireless network card but it isn't recognized at all either). The pcmcia section in the control panel lists both slots as empty.

IBM's checking feature that can be accessed at startup lists all the components as OK when checked.

What are my options for transferring files from my desktop to this laptop? (Money is a factor so the cheaper the better)