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Article #668Re: Wanted -- Formatter for DEC Rainbow Disks
From: klr
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 21:09
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 21:09
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In article <486@ubu.warwick.UUCP> daffy@ubu.UUCP (Steve Hunt) writes:
>Howdy folks,
>
>A friend of mine is the (proud?) owner of a DEC Rainbow micro with
>two 360k drives. But, as many of you are no doubt aware, DEC in their
>wisdom did not distribute a formatter with the machine -- so he is
>stuck at the moment with a very limited number of usable disks.
>
Every Rainbow I have ever owned (2 of em) has always come with a formatter
for the floppies. If you are looking for a winchester formatter, call
the The Pot of Gold FIDO at the number listed in the .signature.
Old Rainbows never die, they just become FIDO BBS.
Kurt Reisler
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!seismo!sundc!netxcom!hadron!klr From: klr@hadron.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.org.decus Subject: Re: Wanted -- Formatter for DEC Rainbow Disks Message-ID: <458@hadron.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 16:09:01 EST Article-I.D.: hadron.458 Posted: Tue Feb 10 16:09:01 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 07:17:27 EST References: <486@ubu.warwick.UUCP> Reply-To: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA Lines: 23 Keywords: formatter, DEC, Rainbow