I purchased two lap top computers from Tiger Direct. They are IBM "off lease"
with windows 98 OS . Price was reasonable and they do everything I need to do
for home or work. I can even play DVD movies. That was how I handled the "DOS
problem" . They work good with TR and do everything else I need a computer for.
George K9CC
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> Hardy:
>
> I used to think the way you do but I have now used WriteLog
> in two relatively unimportant (to me) contests. I find it
> user hostile and user information poor. It does, however,
> meet the general standard for Windows programs, i.e. on line
> help if you are lucky enough to guess the semantic reference
> that appealed to the program author and the interaction with
> the COM and LPT ports is limited by what you can get out of
> the Windows program, operating system and hardware you have.
> It has a multitude of 'windowy' options that have no
> structuring around the hand, eye and ear motions that are a
> part of the contest. The idea of using a 'mouse' to perform
> some function or selection an option while I am logging at a
> rate > 150 Q's per hour is not a physiological possibility
> for an old codger like me ( you other guys with a check of
> 52 better wince when I write that -- it gets us all!)
>
> I have gone back to the antediluvian (neat word) methodology
> of TR with genuine pleasure. I have several aged computers
> in storage waiting for their moment in the sun. I can swap
> computers faster than I can install and tune operating
> systems and new programs. I really don't care if we ever
> move TR to Windows as long as Tree is doing the analysis of
> how to operate the contest as he writes the code. It doesn't
> get better than that.
>
> Tod, KØTO
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hardy Landskov [mailto:n7rt@cox.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:25 PM
> > To: ah3c@frii.com; Tod - Minnesota
> > Cc: Trlog@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [Trlog] Running TR Log on a *new* computer
> >
> > All,
> > Yes, there is I think. Get Tree to make the program
> compatabe
> > with Windows
> > 2K, XP, et al. DOS is history.
> > I could not operate the Stew because of the problems I had
>
> > when I needed to upgrade to Win 2000. I am not going to go
> to
> > extreme measures to make this program work as I upgrade to
>
> > newer Windows operating systems. Look for old laptops with
>
> > Win 95 ? never happen......
> > N7RT
> >
>
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