I figured as much. I guess I'm gonna have to shell out 279

Are there other places licensed to sell MTS2000 CPS that are cheaper, but still legal?

Well I don't want the adapter to toolproof the radio.

I found it on this site, but if you find it offensive, I have no problem removing it.

I am going to purchase the CPS soon, but first I would like to know if this computer is capable of running the CPS without issue:

2.3GHz Intel Core Duo
1GiB DDR RAM
65GiB Windows Partition (Doubt that will be an issue)
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Using an RS-232 to USB adapter from ...

That's a great idea.

that looks pretty cool. i've bought ribless cables from rfguys and havent had any problems with them so i'd say go for it, though no RIB is as good as OEM, but if its in your price range then go ahead.

Moto said I could buy a RIB for $200. I paid $196 for the radio. I think aftermarket RIBs are ...

I just bought a RIB for my MTS2000 as well as aquire a computer. I think either the computer, or the RIB is bad. The computer is a 90MHz Pentium 1 with 16MB RAM MS-DOS 6.22 RSS R06.07
The RIB is the MTS2000 RIB from ixcessory.com I often get checksum errors, and request not ACKed/NAKed errors. I can ...

Well I only program the radio while it is in the charger, and the RIB battery is still only 3 days old so I am good so far. I have LAB, but it isn't on my programming computer, and it probably never will be.

I have an MTS2000 that I programmed several times on the following computer:
90MHZ Pentium 1
16MB RAM
using COM2 since COM1 is dead

I am using a RIB, and cable from ixcessory.com
RSS version R06.07
Radio firmware version R06.27

just 10 minutes ago I tried to read the radio, and it gave a checksum ...

There is just one problem: I am afraid to take apart any of my radio equipment. As long as this can't toolproof the radio, I'm ok.

I recently purchased an MTS2000 as well. I have sucessfully programmed it about 10 times with RSS R06.07, and with the RIB, and cable I bought from ixcessory.com Occasionally I see ">REQUEST NOT ACKed/NAKed ERROR <" but everytime I retry it seems to work. I know COM1 is bad on my computer but COM2 ...