[Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Edward R Cole
Hmm, another survey? I have had up to four computers in the shack, but run two (mainly). I Dell duo-core P4 2.33G with 2GB memory XP32 which is always connected to the K3 serial port and does all the digital mode work. I Dell Inspiron with win8.1 always connected to the SDR-IQ but gets very

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Phil Wheeler
Five in total (Two Macs, three PCs). The Macs both will boot OS X, Win 7 or Ubuntu Linux -- one will even boot two versions of OS X at any time, one working and one beta. One Mac in the house (MacBook Air) and one PC (long-in-the-tooth, circa 2008, Dell running Win 7). One Mac in the shack (

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread DGB
I told her to wait till win10 is available. She also has a ipad-3 which is in constant use. I have no idea why she needs a desktop. Because she said so! de ns9i married for 110 years! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Bert Craig
Pity this thread will be shut down, it has the makings of such an interesting topic and since most of us interface our PC's to Elecraft rigs, it's quite relevant. Here goes nothing. Lenovo ThinkPad W520, i7-2820QM CPU, 16GB 1600MHz Kingston HyperX RAM, and a Samsung 830 256GB SSD running Win 7 Pr

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Joshua Gould, K8WXA
As my shack and office share the same space, I have: 13" retina MacBook Pro used for everything... 21" iMac that acts as a file server 11" MacBook Air that just sits there Old power spec pc that I need to (re)install windows on Some old server that I bought many years ago... The 13" rMBP is attac

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Harry Yingst via Elecraft
Too Many  I also do this for a Job. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.q

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread GRANT YOUNGMAN
I’m a luddite. I have two Windows machines (mostly turned OFF), a MacBook, two MacBook Pros, and a Mac Pro. None of them are in the radio room, although I do take a MacBook Pro in there once in a while for digital stuff. Too many RADIOS. No room for permanent computer thingies. Grant NQ5T

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Phil Hystad
Harry, I too did it for a job -- professional programmer from 1967 to 2013 until I retired. But, I agree, you can have too many computers. Ninety percent of my computer activity is on my Macbook Pro. 73, phil, K7PEH > On Mar 11, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft > wrote: > > To

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread hsherriff
Phil Don't forget the microwave oven Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Phil Hystad Date:03/11/2015 4:47 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Phil Wheeler Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack I

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Phil Wheeler
phone Original message From: Phil Hystad Date:03/11/2015 4:47 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Phil Wheeler Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack In the shack right now, not counting any processor that is in the Elecraft rigs: 1. Macboo

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Kevin Stover
Me too. Three home brew desktops, the slowest of which has four cores and 8G of Ram, all running Win7. A Dell laptop from hell running Win98 that is stand alone and gets used with spectrogram. A pair of HP blades, 8 cores, 32G memory running Linux. One is a file server the other is my firewall

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread david Moes
Just one running for now 3.6ghz quad core 8gb. yea I do a little light gaming too. I have six club computers stored for field day and other contests. the week before field day it looks like mission control down here as I set up and test all six (five plus one backup) connected to availa

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-11 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
Let's close this thread at this time. We've exceed the max number of single topic posts in a short period. I would have closed it earlier, but I actually had to do some productive work here at Elecraft HQ this afternoon.. It is also just a renamed version of the prior thread I closed earlier th

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-12 Thread Phil Hystad
In the shack right now, not counting any processor that is in the Elecraft rigs: 1. Macbook Pro laptop 17 inch screen duo core, 8 GB Ram. 2. iMac 24, quad core, 16 GB Ram. 3. Sony Vaio laptop, Linux, in the closet, has not been on in more than six months. 4. One Raspberry Pi model B. 5.

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-12 Thread Robin Moseley
latest machine is a Lenovo TS-140 server, really cheap at £220 after cashback. Added a SSD drive to boot from £100 Better sound card for data modes - Creative SB -Z £40 (ebay) extra ram (20GB - 2*8 and 1*4GB £140 Ebay) Dual band wifi card (£30 Amazon) Running win 7 Pro x64 27" monitor - thin

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

2015-03-12 Thread Edward R Cole
I didn't think to include my calculator: TI-35plus (so old many keys are rubbed bare of labels - good that I remember what they are). Can I add my Post slide-rule to the list ;-) My log is computerized (its a spreadsheet I manually make entries to - ha!). I have no room to have a logging pro

Re: [Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack [THREAD CLOSED]

2015-03-11 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
And just in case my prior message, just sent a minute ago, is missed, this is a copy with the 'thread closure' in the subject line. Eric List Moderator elecraft.com On 3/11/2015 6:31 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: Let's close this thread at this time. We've exceed the max number of s