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In <1992Apr11.063029.25680@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu writes:

>  
>  	It's nice to check this group and find articles to read; and some 
>  of you know a lot of stuff that us rookies want/need to know to keep our 
>  Rainbows, Pro's, and other stuff going strong.  I for one am trying to 
>  soak up any random info I can find on DEC Rainbows, since both information
>  and parts are hard to find at times.

There are probably many people like me who are continually looking for
software and hardware to upgrade their Rainbow systems with. This newsgroup
is potentially very useful for this but there hasn't been much depth to the
discussion for quite a while  :-(   Warner is an obvious exception!! :-)

>  
>  	All this makes me wonder:  How many people read this group
>  on a regular basis?  Is it appropriate to take a brief survey inquiring
>  the readership of this group as to their reading habits, equipment, etc.
>  Or is that a violation of some sort of netiquette to take such a survey?

I see no problem with people mailing to you directly but millions of
people posting to the group would be a bad idea...  :-)

Now for my little question...

Does anyone know much about the TurBOW 286 board? I have thought about
either acquiring (I am a little out of the way!) or building one of
these and wondered if anyone could provide information. In particular I
wondered if they use the standard Rainbow ROMs, run at the standard 4.??
MHz, and if they use a little add on CPU board like the upgrade to the
100A. I have thought that it should be possible to run the CPU chip and
memory at a higher speed and fall back to normal speed to talk to the
other components (shared memory, I/O, etc). 

While I am at it my kids have been playing a couple of graphics games on
the Rainbow and I wondered if anyone had access to others not at the
usual FTP sites? Does anyone have any GOOD games other than PACMAN,
SCRAM, SOLIT, MONSTA, etc?  (I know Warner has now made MORIA available
but I haven't tried it yet) 

And finally does anyone know that status of 'now abandoned' software for
the Rainbow? For instance since no-one is selling Rainbows or Rainbow
software maybe the sources for the Rainbow boot ROMs and the Rainbow
specific bits of MS-DOS 3.1b should be made publicly available? Does
anyone have any suggestions relating to this? 

Paul Nankervis				Rainbow hacker from wayback!
ccpn@lure.latrobe.edu.au