yep the usb ones work great, just make sure the VCOs in the 900s dont have the waterfall sound on rx and tx, as thats what happens to them as they get old, fault of phillips.

This thread was started 10 years ago, and shows a rather obsolete piece of hardware 

It requires a computer with a Centronics parallel printer port and a 16 bit operating system, such as Windows 95 or Windows 98.
Computers like that in working condition are a bit rare in 2016.

FM900 radios can be programmed with a modern USB programmer, but unless you are 100% sure the radio is perfect then it'll likely involve a lot more than an EPROM.

The 900 series radios are 26-32 years old now, and like most radios that old they have components dying of old age.
The two big ones in the 900 are electrolytic capacitors (especially the ones in the display and PLL sections) and the VCO / RF front end modules that fail from tin oxidization, losing transmit / going very noisy (VCOs) or going very deaf (front ends).

Both issues are fixable but are rather time consuming, which means $$ if you are paying someone by the hour 

nar sorry i moved 363kms south of sydney, i dont think there is anyone willing to run one the way radio in sydney has turned out

360 k's is a tad far from Sydney. 

Enjoy your days down south, mate.

nar sorry i moved 363kms south of sydney, i dont think there is anyone willing to run one the way radio in sydney has turned out

hey bill what happin to everyone nobody posts here for years maybe we are the only ones left in cb land so sad mmmmm sorta sux m8 cya

alas Facebook is the norm now days over the forum, but Cbdomain pages get used as we have allot of information on our many pages