I have about 15 Motorola PPS software programs installed in a laptop and have for ohhh 35 years now and it’s worked great. Until I tried to install the time port disk and failed at installing it which is fine but now every program now says it can’t find the port or read the pager. I have tried all ports and changed the sensor to all 3 Choices. Nothing seems to work now and it’s been way to long and I have no idea What happened. Please help.
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Motorola programming software programs all failed HELP ?
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
It's almost a miracle that a 35 year old laptop was even still running. Now tell me, why would you dare to try to change a fragile 35 year old system in ANY WAY, with the possibility being that you'll break it?
DON'T MESS WITH SUCCESS.
DON'T MESS WITH SUCCESS.
Was this software designed for DOS as a 35 year old computer is DOS Based even windows 95 and windows 98.
What OS is running on the computer?
What OS is running on the computer?
FKimble
Member
More info would help. I assume you are exaggerating with the 35 year old part. What is the OS? what is the speed? how much memory? Disk size? Free disk space?
Frank
Frank
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Most PPS (pager programming software) is MS-DOS based, with the later model like Minitor 5/6/7 being Windows based, so he'll most likely need a DOS capable PC with a true serial port to support legacy pagers and newer stuff. A Dell Latitude D630 is a good cheap versatile machine to get. Usually can be had for less than a hundred bucks, can run Windows 7/10 and can be booted to DOS off CD or thumb drive. I have one and have a small 200MB FAT-16 partition on the HDD for running legacy RSS. Boot to MS-DOS with a CD, the only partition it will see is the FAT-16, where old legacy RSS lives forever.
