Oh, on a side note, I was able to program my X9000 with a Panasonic
> CF-18 toughbook using a DOS boot USB stick and a slowdown program
> called throttle. It was a nice discovery after I wasted several hours
> going through a pile of old 386/486 laptops that all ended up having
> some issue like bad hdd or floppy drives.
Nice, and if you're having trouble getting the radio to release from the
mounting plate, you can use the Toughbook as a blithwapper to get it
started moving!
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