Well it didn't work on my Pentium II box under XP. The box died
before I could try it from DOS, sigh. Booted ONCE and ran beautifully
(much to my shock) and that was it. Now it just turns off before it
even tries to boot. Power supply issues I expect.
73's Skip
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 3:02 PM Kris Kirby <kris@...> wrote:
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022, Skip Hansen wrote:
Well it took a week of raiding my garage for old PCs, but I
**FINALLY** got RSS for the Spectra to run successfully.
IIRC that one is Pentium-safe.
Of course a Spectra is newer than the Syntor X9000 so I don't know if this
box will run the X9000's RSS or not.
The X9000 is only really picky for some of the option cards like MDC600.
Otherwise, a 25/50 MHz 386/486 laptop or tablet (e.g. Fujitsu 500) with
a slow CPU mode or low power mode works well for the DOS RSS radios,
control heads, DTMF controller and Siren/PA units.
That said, I have no idea if the X9000E with the trunking controller is
any amount of speed sensitive. Of course, it's impossible to brick an
X9000 because the firmware is EPROM, not EEPROM. The other EEPROM radios
can be bricked.
The Atmel Mega256 does have three serial ports, should it be necessary
to convert from USB to several serial ports.
It is unlikely anyone has the CPUs and firmware to set a radio up as the
second radio. Another idea therein is using the second control head
address (Rear control head).
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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
Disinformation Architect, Systems Mangler, & Network Mismanager
