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  Someone just uploaded to a local bbs today a program called
RainDos. It's a rather new product from a company called Sydex,
who's somewhat well-known in the PC arena. Quoting from the
documentation:

  "RainDOS  is a device driver which supports reading and writing of
   MS-DOS diskettes from Digital Equipment  Corporation's  Rainbow tm
   series computers on PC XT- or AT-compatible machines.  Formatting
   of Rainbow diskettes is not currently supported by RainDOS.

   To use RainDOS, your computer must be PC AT-, XT- or IBM Personal
   System/2  compatible.    Computers  such as the Tandy 2000 or the
   Zenith Z-150 are not suitable because of  their  relative  incom-
   patibility.   Further, your computer must be equipped with either
   a 5.25" high-density  (1.2  Megabyte)  or  5.25"  "quad"  density
   drive,  such as the Teac 55F."

What's amazing is that a company such as Sydex believes there are
enough Rainbow users out there who might be interested in their
device driver. I wonder if they themselves had a collection.

   I haven't tried this out, but it seems to compete directly with
Robert Morse' RX50DRVR. RainDos is shareware, though, and registration
is $10 (or $15 if you read stuff embedded in the SYS file).

  Does anyone know whether RX50 will work on an XT-class machine?
Or how common it is to find XT's with 1.2MB drives in them?

   If there's enough interest, I'll see that this is passed along
to the INFO-DEC-MICRO file archives.

George

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