[WriteLog] New Computer

[Jerry Flanders]

I am delighted with the two Compaq SR1300nx Sempron machines (XP) I 
bought this past spring. The fact that I got them for less than $360 
each (plus sales tax) AR including monitors made them particularly 
sweet. I discussed the processor and sound card performance here when 
they were new, I think (or perhaps it was on the RTTY reflector). 
Search the archives.

I seem to have better performance under XP with WL than I did with 
WIN98se. More stable, and DLPORTIO works FB for antenna control 
through LPT1. Additional cheapie I/O card for serial ports and video 
card from COMPUSA for a 2nd monitor work FB also. These are networked 
for SO2R, so no RAID needed.

I haven't seen any XP problems of any kind here, to my surprise.

Jerry W4UK

At 18:17 10/3/2005, you wrote:
>I am in the process of putting the specs together for a new computer. I
>currently use Win2K and am a bit leery of going to XP because of the initial
>problems of drivers. Has XP proven to be ok for Writelog? I am going to
>probably go to XP Pro and use Raid 1 ATA serial drives. Most of the
>motherboards have so much built into them now that I have to be sure that I
>will be able to put in my com port board and be able to use my dual video.
>Anyway I know this could be a long discussion but I would appreciate any
>recommendations that parallel getting a new computer and keeping it writelog
>compatible.
>
>
>--
>Tnx es 73
>Dick W7ZR