Comment on Motorola Radios
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Motorola won’t even sell you the programming software for a lot of their radios. If you want to use them, you will have to track down a copy somewhere as well as a DOS PC with a real serial port to run it on.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Well, even their chargers have firmware, and you need a crazy rj11 to serial cable to update the damned things.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The charger for my Motorola HT doesn’t have any firmware. The only ICs in it are op amps and comparators.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The first charger I got didn’t, and I’m pretty sure it was also a fake. The second one I got can actually recondition my battery…
There’s a whole underlying system with the impres series of batteries and Chargers to keep everything in top condition for as long as possible.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
My charger is genuine, it’s just 36 years old.