Keyboard Shortcuts
ctrl + shift + ? :
Show all keyboard shortcuts
ctrl + g :
Navigate to a group
ctrl + shift + f :
Find
ctrl + / :
Quick actions
esc to dismiss
Likes
Search
Spectra RSS success w/ Win98 and 400 Mhz Celeron!
|
Well it took a week of raiding my garage for old PCs, but I **FINALLY** got RSS for the Spectra to run successfully.
The PC is an old surplus box that I bought probably 20 years ago at the TRW swap meet for $35. It ran Linux 24/7 as my repeater controller & Echolink box running my thelinkbox software for at least 5 years.? It hasn't been turned on for 12 years, but it worked when I tried earlier in the week. Yesterday I installed a "fresh" copy of Windows 95 second edition and RSS.? Shock of shocks RSS reads my code plug successfully ! 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. 73's Skip |
开云体育Skip, my experience is that it should work for X9000 RSS *if* you can get it to slow down to 486/386 speeds and load the DOS in the proper memory space. My paid for version of MoSlo accomplishes this for me on the Dell D630 laptop (real serial port) booted to W98SE DOS (often referred to as DOS 7).?tnx Mike / K5JR? Alpharetta GA On Aug 6, 2022, at 12:37 PM, Skip Hansen <skip@...> wrote:
?Well it took a week of raiding my garage for old PCs, but I **FINALLY** got RSS for the Spectra to run successfully. The PC is an old surplus box that I bought probably 20 years ago at the TRW swap meet for $35. It ran Linux 24/7 as my repeater controller & Echolink box running my thelinkbox software for at least 5 years.? It hasn't been turned on for 12 years, but it worked when I tried earlier in the week. Yesterday I installed a "fresh" copy of Windows 95 second edition and RSS.? Shock of shocks RSS reads my code plug successfully ! 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. 73's Skip |
|
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022, Skip Hansen wrote:
Well it took a week of raiding my garage for old PCs, but IIIRC that one is Pentium-safe. Of course a Spectra is newer than the Syntor X9000 so I don't know if thisThe 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). -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Architect, Systems Mangler, & Network Mismanager |
|
Well it didn't work on my Pentium II box under XP. The box died
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
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 On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 3:02 PM Kris Kirby <kris@...> wrote:
|
to navigate to use esc to dismiss