[NLRS] Need Help w/FE-5680A Rubidium Std.

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I run GWBASIC and such programs that I have compiled in DOS eons ago in 
a command line window in this XP laptop. I just checked I have 
GWBASIC.EXE on this computer and its 80K on the disk. Easily posted to 
my web page for down load if needed. I don't trust e-mail programs 
attaching binary files, sometimes they destroy them trying to make them 
text and they expand seriously in size. The command line window starts 
by running cmd.exe from the windoze library.

I do have a DOS computer on the desk and I think a Borland Basic 
compiler still in it, definitely not visual basic. I see it has another 
basic interpreter TBASIC its file is 204K. I quit using basic for 
commercial products long ago bacause when I needed extended integer math 
it reverted to single precision floating point and cost me a consulting 
job figuring out why I kept getting wrong answers.

I do have PUFF with examples, one titled coupler, and some documentation 
for DOS on that DOS computer. It needs to be used with better 
documentation than is here but I think that is online. I have it on my 
web site at: www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/PUFF/Puff%20Manual.pdf
but not the executable.


It doesn't take a DOS Virtual machine on top of windoze, just running 
the windoze command line window that may take some setup for display 
properties.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 2/23/2015 12:58 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
>
> I really don't know anything about the Windows world but it seems this
> problem gets solved by running a DOS virtual machine on top of your 32-
> or 64-bit Windows and then you can run the original GW-BASIC in that
> virtual machine.
>
> "DOSBox" is one way,
>
> http://www.dosbox.com/
>
> There is a Windows version of DOSBox here,
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox0.74-win32-installer.exe/download
>
> Then you can find the original GW-Basic here,
>
> http://www.gw-basic.com/downloads.html
>
> This paper,
>
> http://www.redrok.com/Oscillator_FE-5680A_precise-reference-frequency-rev-1_0.pdf
>
> references a .ZIP with both BASIC source and .EXE versions of an FE-5680A
> configuration program so maybe you can run the .EXE directly in the
> DOSBox too without requiring BASIC.
>
> http://www.redrok.com/FE5680A.zip
>
> Good luck,
>
> Chris NØJCF
>
>
> On Monday (02/23/2015 at 11:48AM -0600), Bud Patten wrote:
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>>
>> Hi Gang.  I have an FE-5680A that is prog'd for 8+ MHz and would like to
>> move it up to 10.000 but am having a problem finding s/w that will run on
>> either my 64 or 32 bit machines.  I have qb64 and Liberty basic but neither
>> will accept any of the basic s/w that I've come across.   Not being a s/w
>> guru, I'd like to stick with something in basic that won't tax my limited
>> mental capabilities.   I have checked everything that I could find on
>> google/bing/yahoo and so far have come up empty.  If any of you have any
>> thoughts, I'm definitely open to them.   If you know of a version of basic
>> that will work with the FE-5680A s/w that is around, I would appreciate
>> hearing about it.  I thought I'd put a note out locally before going to the
>> Time-Nuts reflector.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tnx es 73
>>
>> Bud
>>
>> w0lcp
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