Q Can you tell me what laptops are known to be compatible with PSK31?
A If a laptop has a built-in sound card with audio inputs and outputs, it should be useable for PSK31. In practice, however, some laptops have sound systems that refuse to work with the PSK31 software. Others lack the necessary processor muscle.
A few months ago Martin Campbell, KB0HAE, conducted a survey on one of the PSK31 e-mail reflectors to determine which laptops were being used successfully with PSK31. The following list represents the reports of reflector subscribers. It is not a comprehensive list of compatible laptops.
Compaq Armada 1572
Dell 3500 Pentium II 266 laptop with 64 MBytes RAM
Gateway 5150 w/ 300 MHz Celeron
Hitachi MX166
Micron Pentium 166 MHz with 32 MBytes RAM
Mitsuba 486/66 DX
Mitsubishi Amity CN1 (P133/48MB RAM)
NEC Versa 486/33
Toshiba 420 CT
Toshiba Tecra 300CDT
Toshiba Satellite
Toshiba Satellite Pro
Winbook XL 266 MHz Pentium II
From QST December 1999
