[Ham-Computers] Refresh my DOS memory

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I still program using MS 6.22 DOS and compile it Phil, tell me what time to 
call you PST and I will talk you through whatever you need to make happen.

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
http://hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip KO6BB" <ndb_fch-344 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Computers Ham" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:00 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Refresh my DOS memory


> Hi All,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a 10M Beacon that will operate 24/7. 
> This is built around a scrapped 40 Channel CB transceiver and is "keyed" 
> by my old NEC Pentium laptop running Lyle Koelor's very nice DOS IDer 
> program.
>
> Except for some fine tweaking of the final stage (waiting on a heavier 
> final transistor) the transmitter is completely finished, complete with an 
> internal opto-coupler interface to the RS-232 port of the computer.
>
> Tests presently being run indicates that everything is working well.  The 
> NEC is running on Win-95 (not sure if version A or B).  However, I've 
> found that I had to disable all power saving in the OS or keying speeds 
> change drastically and erratically as well as sending extraneous stuff 
> when the power control does it's stuff.  Since the installation is planned 
> to run 24/7, 52 weeks a year it seems a shame to have the HDD running all 
> that time, especially since the keying program is DOS.  I figure I can 
> pull the hard drive (it slides in), boot DOS from a floppy, then run the 
> program from a floppy (it's small enough).
>
> I While I USED to be VERY proficient in DOS, it's been many years. 
> Refresh my memory.  Is all I need to do to run a DOS program this way is 
> create a Bootable DOS diskette, put my program on it?  Then boot from that 
> disk and have an autoexec.bat file to auto-magically start the keying 
> program.  Or does the autoexec file also need other commands embedded? 
> (They say one's memory is the first to go 8^)
>
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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