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Re: Rainbow 100+

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From: Charles Lasner
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:06
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In article <1992Dec11.221053.5894@ais.com> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
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>Must have been close to the time DEC dropped the Rainbow then.  I'm
>quite sure that when we first got ST225's to upgrade from the old 5MB
>ST506 drives, that we had to get WUTIL then because the DEC disk
>formatting software would not recognize the drive.

I don't remember which drives, but there was a DECdirect catalog claiming
Rainbow disk upgrades, and I believe that RD-31 was one of the listed drives.
In any case, it claimed that whatever was needed was provided, and this was
certainly for larger drives than the 5 and 10.  (I am certain one was the
RD-52.)

cjl
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
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Subject: Re: Rainbow 100+
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Date: 12 Dec 92 19:06:43 GMT
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