486DX for RSS

holodeck3 · Post by **holodeck3** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 10:08 am

I just picked up a 486 DX/50 notebook with the old com ports (9600 baud). I gather this will be safe for programming Gp300's, Gp350's and the like.

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Tom in D.C. · Post by **Tom in D.C.** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 10:16 am

Should work fine. Be sure that you are running in true DOS, and not that imitation DOS which runs under Windows 95 or 98 etc.
Better yet, if you don't need the Windows, dump it and just run DOS 6.22 on the machine.

I have a P60 on which I do exactly that.

Tom, W2NJS
...in D.C.

holodeck3 · Post by **holodeck3** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 10:24 am

Its going to be a dedicated radio programmer. Thanks to bootdisk.com I have a dos 6.22 boot disk. I'll format the drive using /s to sys it, lose the drvspace and dblspace bin drivers, load himem.sys and put RSS 7 and 8.01 in a bootmenu' in the autoexec.bat

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Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 7:56 pm

Thats the way to do it.