[Elecraft] OT- experience porting XP->WIN7

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Folks - we're exceeding the OT posting limit for this thread. Let's let it rest 
for now.
Thread closed.
73,
Eric
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On 11/19/2014 10:46 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
> Classic Shell is great with Win 8.
>
> Thankfully Windows 10 is looking more like Win 7 and so far it's working fine on my bête test machine.
>
> Phil -- Sent from my iPhone 5S
>
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 09:17, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed,11/19/2014 8:10 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>>> I have both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems with Classic Shell and
>>> I would not bother with Windows 7 on a new system - nor would I even
>>> consider upgrading hardware that will not support Windows 8 given the
>>> sub-$500 price point of quality new i5 based systems.
>> I've been using T4x Thinkpads running XP for years, and they have done everything I needed, both in the shack and for some very demanding engineering applications. The newest of them, a dual core T61 that's about six years old, is very happily running N1MM+. To make it work reliably, I give it real hardware serial ports, a decent USB sound card, and use WinKey to send CW. One serial port comes from a docking station, two more from a PCMCIA card.
>>
>> This summer, with XP support ended, I bought a Win7 machine for my desktop that does engineering work and email, and a Win 8.1 for the XYL who does only email and A/V playback. I found the "mind of its own" of Win 8.1 to be maddening, but I very much like Win 7 once I found and read an excellent third party manual.
>>
>> I have a hard and fast rule to NEVER upgrade a machine to a new OS, but rather to buy a new machine with the OS I want installed. Because power is unreliable where I live, I use laptops almost exclusively. I've found that it is always a good move to buy the docking station -- for older machines, it comes with at least one real serial port, several good USB ports, and a VGA port. Bought on EBay, they're pretty inexpensive.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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