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        Hey... I just got back from vacation and WOW... 20 new Rainbow
conference mail messages (or there abouts)...  all this arguing and I
missed it!  Any ways... somebody said something about a mouse I bel-
ieve.  Well, I have a $49 Tandy Microsoft compatible mouse on my Rainbow
that works perfectly with MS Windows... so mice aren't the problem.  I
agree with the fact that the Rainbow is an excellent machine.  It's no
longer state of the art... but I think that there are still plenty of
reasons NOT to trash it.  I'm capable of doing anything and everything I
have to on it!  [Granted, that's not much lately...]  The notion that it
is a dead machine is definitely wrong.  With Suitable Sulitions new
board and Windows 2.1 (I only have an old beta version discussed a while
ago in Rainbow Echomail) there is still hope for this great machine.  From
what I heard, Suitable Solutions had a Rainbow w/ the 286 board running
Windows at DEXPO.
        Also... for those who are interested in some Rainbow history and
why it's not the IBM PC of today... I was reading an interesting article
in ComputerWorld magazine.  DEC passed up LOTS of chances in the industry.
One of them was VisiCalc.  The author originally offered to write it for
DEC on the Rainbow (or something to that effect) but DEC wasn't interested
and he went to IBM.  VisiCalc was a big reason that a lot of people got
IBM's in the start... it could have been the 'bow...
        Personally, I'm doing just fine using my good as new (never had a
single problem) Rainbow 100+ w/ 20 meg HD, 704K, graphics and color monitor.
I don't think I could switch to an IBM.  The 'bow has lots of advantages
(many of which are outlined in an earlier IRUG issue).  But that's just my
opinion...
     
                                                        Alok Kapoor
                                                        AKK9180@RITVAX