Hi Stoobie

Sorry, we moved to our new home on 27th and have been spending every hour unpacking etc. and have only recently had a landline/broadband re-instated.

Wow, I don't know what to say, thank-you.

At the moment I haven't had an opportunity to review further into linking things up.  If suitable I would love to take ownership of your BeoLink PC Office to help get me off the ground and would be happy to pay postage and a little something to a charity if OK?

I'm still to unpack the office and may have a USB to Serial Adaptor somewhere.  On quickly reading up I believe it would require a BeoLink Active, IR and Master Link to the BeoSound 4.

Q One.  Does the software for the BeoLink PC Office work on OS Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 which I will be upgrading to shortly?

Q Two.  Is it worth considering going wireless with the WiSA BeoLab Receiver/Transmitter 1?

Capt Cave Man wrote:

Hi Stoobie

Sorry, we moved to our new home on 27th and have been spending every hour unpacking etc. and have only recently had a landline/broadband re-instated.

That's not a problem, I worried that my email may have gone into your spam and I would hate for you to miss out lol. First off,having had a read of the user manual I'm not sure this is going to allow N.Music to work on your system as it seems more to bring the linked rooms into the office computer as opposed to take the computer to the linked rooms so I may have got your hope up over nothing.

That's not to say you aren't still welcome to the Beolink PC Office just that it might not do what I led you to believe.

It may be worth starting a new thread with "Beolink PC Office" in the title asking what it can be used for and what Windows versions etc it works with.

stoobie

Hi Lee,

to answer your question 1:

The old Beolink Office will only work up to Windows 98. You will even have problems to install it in Windows XP or later: Sorry for this. You need a Beolink PC Office 2 or as renamed a BeoPort.

TWG wrote:

btw: Technics built some great products and their best know example is the SL1210 Turntable. Built like a tank, reliable and known, used and appreciated by many many DJs and Clubs around the world! :)

I currently have a Technics based separates system, running through a pair of Bose 301 series III Speakers.

I also have an SL1210 Turntable. I'm thinking of buying a Beosystem 6000, but even so cannot part with my SL1210!

Technics stopped making them a few years ago I believe?

Well Lee,

It looks like the Beolink PC Office will be no use to you at all as it seems from Ralph-Marcus and my own web searches it won't even work with Windows XP, let alone newer OSs.

I have just tried to install it on my Windows 8.1 PC using Windows 98 compatibility mode using the original installation disc and the program it tries to install says it is a 16bit program and I dont have the correct permissions to allow it to load. If I knew more about that side of computing I might have got a bit further. I think most of the software would be 16 bit which limits the OSs it will run on because since windows Vista machines have gone from 32bit more to 64bit and I don't believe a 16bit program can run on a 64bit machine although it could run on a 32bit machine.

If you still want it to experiment with it (perhaps getting a really cheap laptop with windows 98 and a serial port) then you are welcome. If not, please let me know and I'll put it on the  "for sale page"  in case someone else wants to experiment.

Sorry to have got your hopes upon this one 🙁 👍

Regards

Stuart

Hello Stuart

So sorry for the late reply, I've been working 7 days a week recently and with the house move...

Please put it up for sale as I will be upgrading all the PCs shortly and at the moment just don't have the additional time to play but I really appreciated the offer!