Classic Shell is great with Win 8. Thankfully Windows 10 is looking more like Win 7 and so far it's working fine on my bête test machine.
Phil -- Sent from my iPhone 5S > On Nov 19, 2014, at 09:17, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed,11/19/2014 8:10 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: >> I have both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems with Classic Shell and >> I would not bother with Windows 7 on a new system - nor would I even >> consider upgrading hardware that will not support Windows 8 given the >> sub-$500 price point of quality new i5 based systems. > > I've been using T4x Thinkpads running XP for years, and they have done > everything I needed, both in the shack and for some very demanding > engineering applications. The newest of them, a dual core T61 that's about > six years old, is very happily running N1MM+. To make it work reliably, I > give it real hardware serial ports, a decent USB sound card, and use WinKey > to send CW. One serial port comes from a docking station, two more from a > PCMCIA card. > > This summer, with XP support ended, I bought a Win7 machine for my desktop > that does engineering work and email, and a Win 8.1 for the XYL who does only > email and A/V playback. I found the "mind of its own" of Win 8.1 to be > maddening, but I very much like Win 7 once I found and read an excellent > third party manual. > > I have a hard and fast rule to NEVER upgrade a machine to a new OS, but > rather to buy a new machine with the OS I want installed. Because power is > unreliable where I live, I use laptops almost exclusively. I've found that it > is always a good move to buy the docking station -- for older machines, it > comes with at least one real serial port, several good USB ports, and a VGA > port. Bought on EBay, they're pretty inexpensive. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
