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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                     Dec 19, 1989

In this issue:
  GENERAL
  RE: JOBSDUMP
  RE: AVAILABILITY OF CHESS
  RE: MS-DOS FOR DECMATE II      (2 messages)
  RE: CHIPS - AGAIN
  EXCHANGE


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Date:     12-16-89
To:       KEN PATIENCE
Subject:  GENERAL
From:     DAVID DEITCH

In a message of <Dec 15 01:09>, Ken Patience (1:250/610) writes:

%Hi There!
%This board is new to this echo! And I would like to know what computer
%does this echo support? Would be appreciated.
%See Ya!

The Rainbow, of course.  Actually, it is the Dec Rainbow family of  computers
and peripherals from Digital Equipment Corporation.  Right guys?

David Deitch
(GIS) 1:133/411

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Date:     12-17-89
To:       UUCP
Subject:  RE: JOBSDUMP
From:     FRANK MALLORY

To:  OBRIEN%OBRIEN@venus.ycc.yale.edu

GT> JOBSDUMP will not run under graphics mode, as
GT> it directly accesses the INT 18H ROM video functions-it requires text
GT> mode.  If

Thanks for the reply, Jim.  It confirmed my experiences with JOBSDUMP 4.1.

Still puzzled as to why the good 'ole WOMBAT won't print out correctly on
my LA50.  I have some other VAX ReGIS screens I can try; but it might be interes
to see if I can capture the WOMBAT image to file using JOBSDUMP, then uuencode
it and send it to you via uucp so you can try it for yourself.


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Date:     12-17-89
To:       MIKE JANSON
Subject:  RE: AVAILABILITY OF CHESS
From:     FRANK MALLORY

The only chess programs I have here are CHESDEMO.ZIP and DOSCHESS.ZIP.  Somebody
else mentioned Chess Ingenuity, but that's a commercial product.


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Date:     12-17-89
To:       AMER NELSON
Subject:  RE: MS-DOS FOR DECMATE II
From:     FRANK MALLORY

AN> You might call their ELECTRONIC STORE at 1-800-DIGITAL to check
AN> on it.  You'll need the part number to check on the current price.

The DES has a new number: 1-800-234-1998.


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Date:     12-16-89 (01:50)
To:       FRANK MALLORY
Subject:  RE: CHIPS - AGAIN
From:     VAN VANHORN

My diagnosis of the 26LS32-3s came from my belief that this was the only
chip capable of demonstrating the symptoms; a single port (the COMM port
in both cases so far) failed to communicate bi-directionally after a history
of normal behaviour.

In other words, the modem was instructed to dial, and succesfully performed
that function, characters entered from the keyboard were recieved at the
remote system, and no characters from the modem or the remote arrived at
the screen.

Now that I have the things, I sure hope I'm right!

+vanhorn+


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Date:     12-18-89 (14:32)
To:       AMER NELSON
Subject:  RE: MS-DOS FOR DECMATE II
From:     TED STEVENS

Thanks, Amer.  DES has the xpu board (pc27x-ah) with 256k for _only_
$1285.00!!  Needless to say, this is too rich for my blood.  They don't
seem to have discounted this price, even though the DECmate has been
discontinued.

Please let me know if you (or anyone else!) has a source for this item
(8086 co-processor boeard for DECmate II, item # pc27x-ah or pc27x-aj)

Thanks again,
Ted


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Date:     12-18-89 (15:38)
To:       ALL
Subject:  EXCHANGE
From:     RICH HUEBNER


Hi All.
I have a lot of Rainbow software and games that run
on this computer. If anyone out there is interested in
exchanging computer software for the Rainbow, please leave
me a message here, or on Denis' Opus (508)772-6373.
regards,
Rich



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