John: You may want to keep that 286 for yourself. A lot of the Moto software that is used to program the synthesized radios (like Maxtrac, MT-1000, Spectra, Saber, etc) will not run on anything faster than 100mhz. There are tricks to slow down older computers, but it's a lot less problematical to just keep an old 286, 386 or 486 alive. The "breakpoint" seems to be a 486-66 or 486-100 and DOS 5. The problem is that the Moto software guys were hardware engineers and not programmers and used software timing loops to "throttle" the flow of the data in and out of the serial port. Fast machines "break" the serial port drivers.
So if you have a working 286, 386 or 486 and if you think you ever might be needing to run Moto's "Radio Service Software" - RSS for short - keep that old clunker. Personally, I have a 286 desktop and a while back I set up a couple of IBM 700-series color Thinkpads (486-66) for a friend. I boosted the laptop internal hard drive from 200meg to 2 gig (the replacement drives cost $25 each). The laptop plugs into a docking station with a CD-ROM drive and a large hard drive in it. I can back up the entire laptop hard drive by doing a simple XCOPY from the internal hard drive to the docking station hard drive. And I'd like a copy of that announcement program if you end up zipping it... Mike WA6ILQ At 07:44 AM 2/7/04 -0500, "John Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Don, > >I have a 286 computer that the TV station used for music going to >commercial out of the news. It runs in dos. >If you can't find something similar in your "dogpile" searches, >(learned something new myself, though I prefer 'google') let me know. >I'm sure the program is small enough to zip up and FTP if not e-mail. >I will be glad to do it for you, if for no other reason than you've given >me a good idea of what to do with the old thing! > >Another option: We have a satellite fed "radio station in a box" on our >tower that uses a tiny walkman-style MP3 player that has all the IDs >and such on it. They ran wires to it to trigger from the computer. It >looks so out of place in the nice rack of broadcast gear, but it works! > >John R Clark >WCTV 6 Television Engineering >(850) 893-6666 EXT 205 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "ka9qjg1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:24 PM >Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Audio Recorder > > > Can anyone tell Me of a Software that would let Me take a old > > computer and a sound card and use that on a repeater, Would like > > one with a Time and Date stamp . > > > > Thanks Don KA9QJG/R Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
