Powerbook 190 Series Transfer to PC

A co-worker of mine has a PowerBook 190 which he just needs files from. I have connected twop Macs using an etherner crossover cable but never a Mac and PC. What I want to do is connect them and get then recognized and just transfer the files from the PowerBook to the PC via ethernet crossover cable. He has not other expternal periphials so believe this is his only option. I have been searching around the Web but so far I have had no luck. Anyone can point me to some documentation to help? Thank you.
UPDATE: I just read something that this model does not even have an ethernet jack so you need a PC card with ethernet? Or use the serial port? What model?
UPDATE: I remember using an adapter that is sometimes called an EtherModem which is modem on one side to ethernet on the other.
-=SunnaH=-
12 iBook G4 1.33 Combo Airport Extreme Mac OS X (10.4.7) Dell 2004 ext. display and Lacie d2 eXtreme 250 gig.

SunnaH,
You have the more elegant option in hand. However, from the 'For What It Is Worth' standpoint of finding alternatives, Lap Link gives motherboard to motherboard solutions (at 157,000 baud in 1980s) for laptop data transfers.
"I have connected two Macs ... but never a Mac and PC. ...
- believe this (ethernet) is his only option. -
- use the serial port? What model? -
UPDATE: I remember using an adapter that is sometimes called an EtherModem which is modem on one side to ethernet on the other.
Comm Port to Comm Port has been available since about 1987 or 1988. I remember driving to Lap Link's home office in the shadows of Microsoft's new Redmond Headquarters and buying one of their MacLink cables the first week it was sold. One plug goes into the printer port of any legacy Mac from the SE on up and the other end plugs into the comm port of any PC.
Even then, port configuration on the Mac side was plug and play. The instructions stated that if there were any communications problems, they would be on Microsoft's side.
Lap Link should still be around - Googling brings up a number of seemingly current products, some of which are 'discontinued by vendor' and one
"Laplink PC To PC Communication Cable" at this site:
http://www.amazon.com/Curtis-PC075-08-Parallel-Laplink-Communication/dp/B00004Z5 IR/ref=sr111/002-5472956-4361654?ie=UTF8
which states: Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973.
I find the date to be highly suspect because neither Amazon nor PCs existed back then! Be that as it may, direct cabling does exist.
Jim

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