[TowerTalk] [ct-user] CT on Vista - any hope of doing this quickly?

[john at kk9a.com]

I wonder why so many people respond to out of topic posts.




To: Dave Haupt <w8nf at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [ct-user] CT on Vista - any hope of doing this 
quickly?
From: Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki73 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 02:00:06 -0700
List-post: <towertalk at contesting.com">mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>

Dave,

Save yourself a lot of time in "Computer Hell" and get another laptop that
has WIN98SE on it
( or one U can install WIN98SE )

They are very cheap - $50 to $100 at most
for one that has CD Reader, 3.5 Floppy, USB port and DB9 for COM1 and DB25
for LPT1
and some have PCMCIA slots..

I run radio control on COM1 and do CW keying of transmitter off of LPT1

Compaq 1200 or 1500 or the Toshiba CDT series best and after running contest
in CTDOS,
Stay away from IBM and Gateway as they have some other issues to drive you
nuts.

If you try to use Windows Vista or XP, CTDOS program may not even launch and
if it does may crash at any time
and will not be able ot control com ports

If you run CTWIN instead for windows .......has it's own share of bugs

Best to get a old laptop as mentioned above and run CT for DOS

If you have a hankering to be tortured as U are not  computer Geek, get
WIN-TEST
Windows based program ........as it is the easiest to setup and run as
opposed to Writelog or N1MM.
Win-Test has been said to be like CT on steroids

Good Luck and 73,

Dennis N6KI