Actually just about any brand new business laptop from Dell or Lenovo has a
true serial port and you can always boot dos from a floppy.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:39 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] solved - Orion II won't flash
That's why I still have an old one with W-95. Many older Motorola radios can
not be programmed with modern computers.
They require true serial ports with slow processors and it becomes becomes
harder and harder to find old B&W LCD Laptops that run with true DOS.
73, Tony VE3DWI.
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
Original Message
From: Barry N1EU
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 04:24
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Reply To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] solved - Orion II won't flash
It's not a USB port that I was using - it's a real serial port. I consider the
case closed and glad I held on to my old computer ;-)
Barry N1EU
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> If you broke out your old XP box, it was certainly a a different port!
> Had you already tried a different USB-RS232 interface? That would have
> been something similar, I suppose.
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long
> as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>
> > On Jan 4, 2015, at 13:57, Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > To try a different computer/port.
> >
> > Barry N1EU
> >
> >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Kim Elmore
> >> <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm curious: what was his suggestion? I missed it.
> >>
> >> Kim N5OP
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 1/4/2015 1:19 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to Rick VE7TK's suggestion, I dug up my ancient WinXP
> >>> computer
> and
> >>> cabled it up and it flashed the radio fine.
> >>>
> >>> 73, Barry N1EU
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> >> Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology,
> >> CCM, PP SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
> >>
> >> /"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
> >> But, in practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so
> >> true that it doesn’t matter who said it./
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