Great! I will give it a shot with my old HP tablet PC first. It runs Windows 
XP...

Sent from Mano's iCouch

On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:41 PM, bernieS <[email protected]> wrote:

> You'd need a Windows tablet.  Here's a list of some recent ones, but you can 
> find inexpensive older ones on eBay.
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375572,00.asp
> 
> The PCR-1000 also runs PROBE-1K under DOS, and there's cheap used DOS tablets 
> out there.  I found a discarded restaurant point-of-sale LCD touchscreen 
> computer with a i486 CPU to control a PCR-1000.  It made for a nice, very 
> fast, color touchscreen analog scanning system.  Newer isn't always better...
> 
> -Ed Cummings
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:17 PM 2/23/2012, you wrote:
>> ok... good to know.
>> 
>> I have had some success of such mis-matching devices using Ubuntu, but 
>> couldnt come up with the correct cabling with an OpenPC. The PCR worked for 
>> a limited time on the Palm OS but I have forgotten how it worked the first 
>> time years ago with help from a SWL in Italy over eBaY. Palm has since died 
>> as a popular OS and support with teething problems is difficult to get.
>> 
>> Then I tried loading it on old Apple desktop as a precaution incase it 
>> permanently disables my iPad. No such luck. So is there any other tablet 
>> that would be compatible with the PCR-1000 or even PCR-1000 -  Kindle, 
>> Android or otherwise?
>>  
>> Mano Guha
>> Sounds Good ~ Painting with Light ~ Within the Frame
>> 
>> 
>> From: Bruce Churchill <[email protected]>
>> To: 'Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest' <[email protected]> 
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Need help with radio software
>> 
>> Software for the iPad must be specifically written for the iOS operating
>> system used by Apple - iOS 5 is the current version. PCR-1000 is not
>> supported by iOS (any version).
>> 
>> Bruce
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Manosij Guha
>> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:47 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Swlfest] Need help with radio software
>> 
>> 1.Icom PCR-1000 with Windows XP in my laptop and with Palm OS on my PDA. I
>> have all the necessary hardware.
>> 2. Is it possible to use it with an iPad?
>> 
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