[WriteLog] Ritty with WriteLog

[George Johnson W1ZT]

Don, Joe is correct on the sound card.  I am still running an old 
Win98 ISA motherboard with Ritty and WriteLog for this reason.  I met 
with Brian some years ago and we kept trying a laptop but to no good result.
George .. W1ZT

At 06:22 PM 3/25/2013, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:

>>so it could conceivably be run on an old $20 Win95/whatever laptop.
>
>Are you sure?  I thought RITTY required a true ISA Sound Blaster which
>would mean that laptops - or most of the modern PC motherboards are not
>suitable.  Of course, perhaps someone has an ancient 80286 (AT) or
>original Pentium with ISA slots, Soundblaster and MSDOS gathering
>dust <G>.
>
>73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
>On 3/25/2013 5:02 PM, Jerry Flanders wrote:
>>Just a thought - if you can't get it to run in a DOS box, it can be
>>configured to output to a serial port (IIRC), so it could conceivably be
>>run on an old $20 Win95/whatever laptop. This way, that laptop would
>>become a dedicated ordinary hardware modem - don't even bother with its
>>screen. Install DOS as the primary opsys if necessary. Would need a
>>serial port in the main computer also, I guess.
>>
>>Jerry W4UK
>>
>>At 04:38 PM 3/25/2013, Don AA5AU wrote:
>>>Anyone still using Ritty by K6STI in a DOS window?
>>>
>>>If so, I'd like to know what kind of operating system you are using
>>>and how it works.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Don AA5AU
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