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Article #1643Re: DOS on Rainbow100
From: lancaster
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 18:15
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 18:15
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In article <602@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, rodger@comp.lancs.ac.uk (baby!!) writes: > > Anybody out there know of any way I can get a Rainbow > to read a IBM (or compatable) formatted disc? > The simple answer is that a Rainbow can read and write a single sided/double density IBM disk. Once formatted on the IBM it works fine. But its only about 140k, not quite the current 1.6 meg floppies. If you don't have an IBM to format the disks I think a program called Mediamaster will do copies and formats. -- ============================================================================== |Robert Lancaster | lancaster@misadel.oz | |Management Information Systems | | |125 Dew Street | I can write in 101 computer languages | |Thebarton, South Australia, 5038. | but in English forget it. | ==============================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!mimir!hugin!augean!sirius!hacker!lancaster From: lancaster@misadel.oz Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: DOS on Rainbow100 Message-ID: <1137@misadel.oz> Date: 23 Nov 88 18:15:42 GMT References: <602@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Organization: Management Information Systems, Adelaide, South Australia Lines: 20