Motorola GP300 software

[fireman_dude]

A friend of mine is looking for the programming software for a Motorola Radius GP300. This was Dos based software from the 90's.
Can anyone steer him in the right direction I will let him know. Thank You.

 

[KD0NDO]

Google is your friend..

 

[W9WSS]

Have him get a-hold of Dan Barnett. He took care of two of my GP-300's.

barnettelec@hotmail.com

 

[nokones]

I have the software and the radius P110/CP300 programming cable but you need a snail-paced slow DOS computer in order to use the software to program. My converted DOS laptop works great for my Visars, HT1000, and MT2000 radios but not the Radius and Saber radios.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

I have the software and the radius P110/CP300 programming cable but you need a snail-paced slow DOS computer in order to use the software to program. My converted DOS laptop works great for my Visars, HT1000, and MT2000 radios but not the Radius and Saber radios.

Reliably program most of the DOS based radios (HT1000, Radius, Maxtrac, GM300, GTX, Spectra, GP300, etc) with a Core 2 Duo PC manufactured in 2010. Running true DOS (MS-DOS 7.1) but it works reliably.

 

[nokones]

Reliably program most of the DOS based radios (HT1000, Radius, Maxtrac, GM300, GTX, Spectra, GP300, etc) with a Core 2 Duo PC manufactured in 2010. Running true DOS (MS-DOS 7.1) but it works reliably.

Does your 2010 have a typical DB9 serial port? I thought most computers that origibal had XP did away with serial ports. I didn't think that DOS would recognize USB and Optical drives.

Although, I had to get a CD and 3 1/2" externals for my Window 11 computer so I can use the floppy drive in my converted DOS computer. My XP laptop optical is broken so I have to resort to using the USB and a thumb drive when transferring data, so I copy the files from the CD using my Windows 11 and transfer to a Thumb and then thumb to the XP computer. At least it works.

 

[a417]

Does your 2010 have a typical DB9 serial port? I thought most computers that origibal had XP did away with serial ports. I didn't think that DOS would recognize USB and Optical drives.

Most of the consumer-focused XP running computers did that, but if you picked up a Dell Latitude D6xx(or7/8xx) series, they had real serial ports on them and they were designed for XP. I remember some other vendors at the time still had serial ports on a few of their higher tier lines.

The impression that I got was that people that were buying those for industry or power users reliably needed RS232 more than the Best Buy heros who just wanted to play games on them on the train.

DOS did recogize CD drives, but it was highly contingent on how that drive was presented to the OS by the underlying hardware. MSCDEX, anyone?

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Does your 2010 have a typical DB9 serial port? I thought most computers that origibal had XP did away with serial ports. I didn't think that DOS would recognize USB and Optical drives.

Although, I had to get a CD and 3 1/2" externals for my Window 11 computer so I can use the floppy drive in my converted DOS computer. My XP laptop optical is broken so I have to resort to using the USB and a thumb drive when transferring data, so I copy the files from the CD using my Windows 11 and transfer to a Thumb and then thumb to the XP computer. At least it works.

One computer is a Dell Optiplex XE that was part of an EF Johnson Stargate operating position. It has two factory serial ports ports and dual boots Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit) and DOS 7.1 (stripped from Windows 98). My Windows 10 workstation has dual serial ports as well (PCI-E card) but that is a quad core Ryzen machine with 10 Gbps networking, GPU, etc. The other computer I use is a Toughbook CF-19 Mk3 which runs Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 (32 bit) and have a DOS formatted 1 GB USB thumb drive that I boot DOS 7.1 from.

 

[fireman_dude]

Thanks Everyone. Will pass on the information.