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w4rez
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What radios do you own?: Maratrac, GM300, MCX1000

MCX1000 RSS

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What's the fastest PC any of you have managed to run this software on successfully? I am currently running it on an old IBM Model 30 286 but as you could imagine, this old boat anchor is quite cranky, and replacement parts are pretty much unobtanium, so I would like to replace it.

Everything else I've got around here is Pentium class or higher, and all of it fails to run this software. I have heard of people running it on a 386 but how about some of the older 486 machines?
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Tom in D.C.
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Computer speeds, etc.

Post by Tom in D.C. »

I have a P60 dual speed desktop that I run at
25 mHz that does fine on DOS RSS. It also will
run the same RSS at 60 mHz but I don't run it
at that speed just to be on the safe side.

A 286 or 8086/88 will run a DOS RSS fine but it
just takes forever to execute commands.

You probably already know that you can't run the
phony DOS that runs under Windows for these
applications and that the best version of DOS to
use is 6.22.
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w4rez
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Yeah....that 286 is dog slow. You can get the RSS to run on a 60 MHz Pentium without using Moslo? My slowest Pentium is a 75 MHz and I get the infamous divide error when trying to run mcx1000.exe without Moslo. I can get the executable to run on it using moslo but, as expected, it still won't read or write the radio.
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MCX1000 programming

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I have successfully programmed my MCX1000 with my Acer 486-25mhz laptop running DOS 6.22.
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I can run it on an HP Omnibook 800 (Pentium I 133MHz) with Win98SE installed. Just gotta disable the CPU cache memory in the BIOS!
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Re: MCX1000 programming

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tgo wrote:I have successfully programmed my MCX1000 with my Acer 486-25mhz laptop running DOS 6.22.
Same here, although mine is a Compaq with the same specs.

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