Alan Harp, K4PB, wrote:
>
> I have been using an old IBM PS2 laptop for CT. This 386 machine worked
> many contests with CT for me over the years. I loaded the new version 9.90
> with the ability to send CW with a paddle on the serial port. I used this
> program to run the Florida QSO party. The real time clock on the computer
> ran slow and all the QSO times are off. The clock lost over an hour before
> I noticed this. Later testing showed that the real time clock looses time
> when CT DOS is launched even if there is no activity such as logging or
> sending CW.
>
> So when I ran CT DOS on this pentium lap top with Windows 98 I was cautious
> about the time. There was no problem with the clock. The problem that I
> observed running CT DOS on the 386 laptop did not occur with the
> pentium/windows 98 machine.
>
I had exactly the same experience during FD this past weekend.
The 386 running CT DOS lost approximately 45 minutes per day. I let the
PC run without CT today and it lost about 30 seconds per day. I then
launched CT DOS and the clock immediately slowed down. I haven't used
this computer for a while so I don't know when CT quit working with 386
PCs.
The other FD PC was a 486 running Win95 using CT DOS in a DOS box. It
worked flawlessly and lost a few seconds per day, which is what this PC
normally does.
73,
Steve K6UM
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