[TRLog] CW Serial Interface

[Pete Smith]

At 02:40 PM 7/21/02 -0400, Guy Olinger, K2AV wrote:
>Remember TR is a *DOS* program that wants to control the hardware
>directly. (Personally, I suspect that if you are using a com port for
>a serial mouse, you are going to have trouble with the other one, but
>cannot prove anything.)


At least on a 200 MHz Pentium this is not a problem.  I have such a machine 
with a serial mouse on COM 2 and radios on COM 1 and 4, keying and 
controlling the SO2R box via LPT1.  Works fine, even in a DOS window under 
Win98SE.  I went with the serial mouse because I have a second machine, and 
wanted to share the keyboard, monitor and mouse with an inexpensive A/B 
switch -- PS/2 mice can't do this without a fancy smart switch, because the 
OS is constantly polling the mouse and gets unhappy if it can't see it.

73, Pete N4ZR

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