[RTTY] Commercial Interfaces

[Al Kozakiewicz]

You didn't specify the exact problem but I suspect the issue is that you're expecting an operating system that was sunset in 2006 or thereabouts to have the drivers needed to run on hardware developed in 2012.  Especially on laptops where performance comes at a premium to begin with, maintaining compatibility with 20 year old hardware protocols is not assured.

Al
AB2ZY

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:00 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces

If you really want simplicity and bullet proof reliability, stick with Windows XP. Everything works like it should. 

The so-called "upgrades" to Win 7 and 8 may be more trouble than they are worth, unless you like to experiment with things, as I do sometimes. 

For day in, day out use, XP is hard to beat. Save your money. 

One word of caution however: As I found out with a friend's new laptop which came with Win7 installed, you may not be able to revert back to XP. My friend preferred XP and no matter what we tried, the computer would not allow it to be installed. We even formatted the HD and tried a clean install. It simply would not do it. The laptop was a Hewlett-Packard. 

73, Bill W6WRT
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