If you can talk your IT guy into it, I think you'd be
better off with a dual-boot arrangement - Win2K
handles this quite well. I did this on a Dell laptop
2 years ago. It's set up with a small DOS partition
(for that pesky DOS-based ham radio stuff) and a much
larger one for Win2K. During boot it asks which one I
want and defaults to Windows if I do nothing.
It also has no DB-9 serial ports, so I used a PCMCIA
device:
http://www.psism.com/pca-ser2.htm
(not cheap but works like a charm)
You also might do well to look for an older used
laptop for the radio stuff - one with real serial
ports - and stick Win98 on it.
Mike N2MG
--- K4XU wrote:
> My W98 Dell laptop died while mobile during the
> Oregon QSO party. I need to replace it but all the
> new available units are USB only and run XP or W2k.
> Our corporate IT guy, who has to support my L/T
> decision, suggested I put a reduced W98 version on a
> USB plug-in "thumb drive" and run the DOS session
> from there rather than resorting to Partition Magic
> or one of the other suggested work-arounds. At $30
> for 128M it certainly seems reasonable.
> Anyone have comments on this strategy?
> Are available USB to RS232 converters okay with
this?
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