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Help programming Motorola Advisor Pagers

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Hello all !

I have a pile of motorola advisor pagers , and I'm having a bear of a time programming them. I have legally purchased the programming cradle and software, however getting them to work is quite another story.

I'm running windows 7 on an older desktop with a USB based com1 port, dosbox, and have configured the port ( com1 ) at 9600,n,8,1 and used the stock com1 settings in dosbox. At this time out of all of the pagers I have only one will respond when connected, and it asks me for a password, and informs me that after X tries it will brick the pager. All other pager either result in the software throwing a 'illegal function call in line 0 ' , or a communications error in the software.

I have read of people having success with this type of set up, but none have gone to the depth of saying what com ports settings, speeds, etc or dosbox speed settings work.



Any suggestions?
 
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I would honestly just boot into DOS, or find an older computer and install DOS on it. I have zero issues programming older pagers/radios and I use a CF30 Toughbook that is dual partitioned with DOS/Win7. When it powers up, I get the option of which OS to use. When it is in DOS, I don't have to worry about whether Windows is dorking with the serial port and it just plain works.

I know you mentioned that you have an older Win7 desktop, but make sure that it isn't a 64 bit machine. That will cause you a bunch of problems with this old PPS.
 
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