[PCR-1000] PCR1000 Windows XP

[mikea]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:02:11PM -0400, Everett E. Wittig, Jr. wrote:
> I am not real comfortable with most of the 3rd party software for control
> of the PCR1000.  I know there are list members that have never used
> anything but this or that third party program with no problems but I am the
> most unlucky cuss you have ever met, first time I used it, the PCR1000
> would blow up and that would be that.
> 
> Your statements on Microsoft are just one of the many many reasons that I
> can see to get Mr. Gates behind bars and keep him there.  He has pepuated
> more grief on millions in the world than almost any other person in
> history. I get the shaft from his products every time I turn around.  That
> is why my primary computer is a Macintosh.  I never use the Windows machine
> for anything except control of my Davis Weather Station and until recently
> the PCR1000 which is fading fast.
> 
> I have tried every suggestion on the list server to make the Icom software
> work, all to no avail.  It is apparent that the Sony VAIO FXA53 handles
> things differently than most of the other machines as I am sure I would
> have had a "fix" by now.  So as you can see my statement above is accurate,
> I am very unlucky when it comes to anything like this, always have been and
> always will be.
> 
> We are almost to "strike three" with the PCR1000.
> 
> Everett E. Wittig
> ARS WB7VNF
> 
> >I might also recommend Signal Intelligence ScanStar software.  They have
> >just rev'd their ScanStar software to include UT-106 functionality.
> >They really have made some progress toward better utilization of PCR1000
> >functionality.  In addition:  Microsoft no longer supports Windows 95.
> >At the close of next year, Microsoft will discontinue Windows 98
> >support.  Like it or not, times are changing; for the better ?  Highly
> >questionable.  As the CYA phrase goes: " Use at your own risk ".

As much as I despise, abhor, contemn, and just plain dislike the
Evil Empire of Bill_Gatesware, I have to say that cutting support
for old software after, say, 5 years _is_ a sound business
decision. It just is not worth the cost to support ancient code.

Before I retired from my day job at WeBuildHighways, I had a big
IBM mainframe and a software licensing budget of about $3M/year.
Yes, three million dollars US. I had 16 people working in the
group I managed. Their job was to keep the systems software,
compilers and libraries, database stuff, statpacks, and various
bells and whistles up to the current version and release, to
configure it for the needs of the Department, and to work with
vendors to see that problems were fixed quickly. They worked very
hard doing this: 16 people is not a particularly large systems
shop.

For my money, the rancor, distrust, and distaste should be
directed at Icom, since (unless things have changed since I left
for vacation early this month) they're the ones who should be
providing software compatible with the current crop of operating
systems.

But that's just one hard, bitter old man's opinion.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964