[TRLog] CW Serial Interface

[Guy Olinger, K2AV]

Well, I had a 200 MHz (or was it a 166) Pentium that it WOULDN'T work
on.

I got it to work once after a HD crash when the mouse was
disconnected, but that was before I reloaded all my stuff and made
some bios changes to get them all to work. Then TR would work under
windows once in a while (!) on this box, otherwise not. Used the
windows safety disk boot to run TR and shut down everything else. That
always ran.

I tried uninstalling all the uninstallable programs one at a time, but
never got TR to run under windows on that box again. Eventually it was
disassembled

The very problem about this is how it appears to be related to an
issue, but thus far has refused to be pinned down to an EXACT
combination of factor's.

Ham A says he has a wooby-ding hot dawg 300 and it works fine.
Ham B says he has a wooby-ding hot dawg 300 and it won't work.

Everything is exactly the same between the two boxes except for about
50 applications and all their registry entries which are NOT the same.

Neither, of course, are all the bios entries in the said wooby-ding
hot dawg 300's.

Cannot establish a pattern, or someone would have fixed this five year
old problem.

I repeat, I maintain it has something to do with serial mice, but, I
repeat, I cannot prove it, because, I repeat, others have serial mice
going and it doesn't break, keeping me from establishing a pattern
that could be investigated and fixed.

Anyone who has THE answer, kindly step forward.

I have wasted hundreds of hours chasing this stupid problem. I have
better luck with snipes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: <TRLog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TRLog] CW Serial Interface


> 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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