As a point of reference, I have used NA in a DOS window under Windows 95
since the OS came out without problems. W8KX
>I have two computers at my house (not the station) ...
>
>one of them is a 486 and the pther is a Mac Performa....
>
>The Performa is great for doing what Mac is best for doing - graphics
>stuff...when you take it into the DOS world, it comes up short...I have yet
>to try and run ANY DOS program on the Performa and have it run right....
>
>While it was sold as a looky looky you can have the best of both worlds, a
>long time ago I gave up on the DOS side of the machine...
>
>As far as NA...this looks like the third year running I will be putting a
>score in the top ten boxes of SS CW...three years ago was 4th place single
op
>and last year, and hopefully this year are 1st place finishes in
>multi-op....NA was used for these and many other finishes in the big
boxes...
>
>I use NA on 2 computers networked, during the past 3 years of SS succeSS U
>have NEVER had it crash....and I thank K8CC and DATOM for making some
quality
>software that allows me NOT to worry about something I am a novice at,
>computers!
>
>Do yourself a favor...pick up a used DOS machine and make it your dedicated
>contest computer, for the contests I have been using a 486 and a 386....you
>can find used 386s for peanuts anymore..and 486s are well under 400 in this
>market....
>
>Stick with a DOS machine for your contesting...and make it a dedicated
>computer, keep all those funky software and tsr thingies off of it - if you
>wanna play a game, this shouldn't be the computer you play it on!
>
>I do not dislike MACs, I love their ease of usage and have an old one on my
>desk at work for doing spreadsheets and word processing - as well as the
>occasional gag inter-office memo with graphics! This is great for the
>MAC....when you wanna contest, get a DOS machine for NA or CT or TR
>or.....you get my point.
>
>73 - hope to cu in the ARRL 10
>
>Jim, K4OJ
>
>
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