[TenTec] solved - Orion II won't flash

[Tony]

It isn't my intention to get a thread going on this subject. Suffice it to say that manufacturers of commercial two-way radios have come into the future. The radios I referred to are 25 or more years old‎ but are still perfectly fine for Ham operations. 
73, Tony VE3DWI.

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  Original Message  
From: Jim Vohland
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 10:37
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] solved - Orion II won't flash

All fine and dandy but at what point will radio manufacturers step into future and make rigs that won't require keeping a 10 year old computer around?


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> On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick at DJ0IP.de> wrote:
> 
> Actually just about any brand new business laptop from Dell or Lenovo has a true serial port and you can always boot dos from a floppy.
> 
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tony
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:39 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] solved - Orion II won't flash
> 
> That's why I still have an old one with W-95. Many older Motorola radios can not be programmed with modern computers.
> They require true serial ports with slow processors and it becomes ‎becomes harder and harder to find old B&W LCD Laptops that run with true DOS.
> 73, Tony VE3DWI.
> 
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
> Original Message
> From: Barry N1EU
> Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 04:24
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Reply To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] solved - Orion II won't flash
> 
> It's not a USB port that I was using - it's a real serial port. I consider the case closed and glad I held on to my old computer ;-)
> 
> Barry N1EU
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> If you broke out your old XP box, it was certainly a a different port! 
>> Had you already tried a different USB-RS232 interface? That would have 
>> been something similar, I suppose.
>> 
>> Kim N5OP
>> 
>> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long 
>> as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 13:57, Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> To try a different computer/port.
>>> 
>>> Barry N1EU
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Kim Elmore 
>>>> <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm curious: what was his suggestion? I missed it.
>>>> 
>>>> Kim N5OP
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 1/4/2015 1:19 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks to Rick VE7TK's suggestion, I dug up my ancient WinXP 
>>>>> computer
>> and
>>>>> cabled it up and it flashed the radio fine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 73, Barry N1EU
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>>>> Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, 
>>>> CCM, PP SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
>>>> 
>>>> /"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. 
>>>> But, in practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so 
>>>> true that it doesn’t matter who said it./
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