[Ham-Computers] Flash drives, DOS, etc

Fri Oct 20 19:00:20 EDT 2006

Dan,

Which version of Windows 98?

Despite the criticisms of Windows 98A, I have never had any problems with a 
laptop and desktop machine I have that use it. The real difference, so it 
seems to me, is being on-line. Stay off line, or get on - get off, do not 
linger, and 98A works good. For security, I believe the most secure OS that 
Micro Soft has created to date is Windows 98 Second Edition. If it had not 
been for MS advertising the heck out of its new OS to be for the year 2000, 
they would have named Windows 98 SE Windows 99! It was nothing like Windows 
98 and truly was a new OS. But they could not sell it, or advertise it, as 
one for fear of cutting down on the sales of the soon to be released Windows 
2000 platform.
   ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Violette" <danki6x at earthlink.net>
To: "Computers Ham" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Flash drives, DOS, etc

> KD4D did a great job of researching and documenting ways to use older 
> programs on XP.  Add a dual-boot after Windows XP already on PC (I did 
> this one and boot to Win 98 when needed):
>
> http://www.trlog.com/DOS_dual_boot_20041207.pdf
>
> Article starts page 8 in the following on making a bootable USB Thumb 
> Drive:
>
> http://pvrc.org/Newsletters/feb05.pdf
>
> I wanted to get a cheap USB stick and make it a carry wherever bootable, 
> but never did that.
>
> Dan KI6X
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Philip <Beaconeer at SBCGlobal.net>
>>Sent: Oct 19, 2006 3:50 PM
>>To: Computers Ham <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: [Ham-Computers] Flash drives, DOS, etc
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I've been reading the various posts about booting with Virtual machines,
>>flash drives etc. with some interest.
>>
>>I have one old radio program (Radio-Raft) which is a multi-mode decoder
>>program that I would like to use.  It's a very good multi-mode program 
>>that
>>runs under DOS or the earlier versions of windows-95, etc.  No matter how
>>you tweak it, it WILL NOT run under Win-XP (even the author of the program
>>admits this).  People have tried, but it just won't work.  The only other
>>programs on the market that does all this one will AND run under WinXP are
>>in the multi-hundred dollar category (Skysweeper etc.), out of my reach.
>>
>>I have an old NEC laptop Pentium here running Win95 that I was going to 
>>put
>>the program on.  The machine runs well, has a decent hard-drive for it's 
>>age
>>and the required serial port to run it, but it's early color display is
>>rather dim and is hard on my eyes during extended use.  I got it to enable
>>use of my logging programs etc. in "portable" use and for that it's fine.
>>
>>I DO still have my old DOS 6 disk set.  I wonder if it's possible to use a
>>flash drive as a virtual machine UNDER Win-XP and set it up with DOS 6,
>>while still running other apps in WinXP. To be honest, this doesn't sound
>>do-able to me as it seems like you'd be running two OS's at the same time,
>>but then I'm no expert either.  If not then I'll just set the program up 
>>on
>>the Win95 machine and forget it (though it'd mean running two computers
>>simultaneously on an already cluttered listening bench).
>>
>>73 de Phil,  KO6BB
>>DX begins at the noise floor!
>>
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