Dave,
Save yourself a lot of time in "Computer Hell" and get another laptop that
has WIN98SE on it
( or one U can install WIN98SE )
They are very cheap - $50 to $100 at most
for one that has CD Reader, 3.5 Floppy, USB port and DB9 for COM1 and DB25
for LPT1
and some have PCMCIA slots..
I run radio control on COM1 and do CW keying of transmitter off of LPT1
Compaq 1200 or 1500 or the Toshiba CDT series best and after running contest
in CTDOS,
Stay away from IBM and Gateway as they have some other issues to drive you
nuts.
If you try to use Windows Vista or XP, CTDOS program may not even launch and
if it does may crash at any time
and will not be able ot control com ports
If you run CTWIN instead for windows .......has it's own share of bugs
Best to get a old laptop as mentioned above and run CT for DOS
If you have a hankering to be tortured as U are not computer Geek, get
WIN-TEST
Windows based program ........as it is the easiest to setup and run as
opposed to Writelog or N1MM.
Win-Test has been said to be like CT on steroids
Good Luck and 73,
Dennis N6KI
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Dave Haupt <w8nf@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I ran NAQP using CT10 on a very crusty old laptop. Found a few errors,
> failed at "fix mine" and then found "fm10". Whew. Problem averted.
>
> Then when I uploaded the logs, the robot flagged my other error - although
> I'd set the laptop's time zone to UTC, I had set the time itself to local,
> so I was off 7 hours.
>
> This time, I had to find out how to deal with it. Had to download CT_TIME
> on another computer (the laptop has no networking ability), then transfer to
> the laptop via floppy. Failed...more study, and figure out CT_TIME had a
> different version for CT10. OK, found that compendium of files and
> transferred to the laptop the same way...but oops, no, that's not
> working...the laptop's floppy drive has now failed. I have no way to move
> data off this laptop now. I can burn a CD and then let the laptop read it -
> but the CD drive in the laptop is not a burner. I attempted to add a
> network card to the machine, and it starts asking for Windows 95 disks - it
> refuses to search for files on the W95 CD (which is how I loaded W95 on the
> machine). So I think I'm dead in the water with respect to that laptop.
> It's toast.
>
> So...somewhere in this process, I DID manage to save a copy of the *.bin
> file to a floppy and I CAN load that onto another computer. The most
> "available" machines I have, though are a Core2duo running Vista x64, and a
> G4 vintage Mac. I'm guessing the Mac is silly to even think about. How
> about Vista x64?
>
> I suppose the FINAL backup method would be to load the Cabrillo file (yep,
> I managed to get that onto the floppy, too), get the data over into Excel,
> do some math on all the QSO times, then have Excel re-format into
> Cabrillo-equivalent *.txt and kiss my CT DOS days good bye.
>
> But it would be nice not to have to do the Excel work.
>
> If it isn't obvious from all the above, I do not enjoy time spent in front
> of a screen....I'm no computer wiz!
>
> TNX ES 73,
>
> Dave W8NF
>
>
>
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