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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                     Mar 10, 1990

In this issue:
  LA100 PRINTERS
  RE: TURBO PASCAL
  TURBO PASCAL                   (2 messages)


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Date:     03-05-90 (10:15)
To:       ALL
Subject:  LA100 PRINTERS
From:     DAVID HEID

Just picked up an LA100 and I am getting some backward ?  Does the LA100
have a similar problem as the LA50 with the capacitor blowing out. I have
repaired the LA50 with similar problems but the LA100 is foreign to me.
Also the setup key doesnt respond. The LA100 is a keyboard version and
I am curious whether the cartriges are available(reasonably) and if they
would be worth acquiring.

Would appreciate any help.    Thanks


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* Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (Opus 1:343/3)

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Date:     03-05-90 (07:58)
To:       RICH HUEBNER
Subject:  RE: TURBO PASCAL
From:     CHRIS RYAN

If you want a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.01 (Rainbow release of 3.0), Alpha
Systems in San Jose, CA has all rights to it (contract with Borland).
About a year ago it was ~$100.00, and avail in CP/M or MS-DOS versions.
Their phone number is (408)297-5583.
Hope it helps.


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Date:     03-06-90
To:       RICH HUEBNER
Subject:  TURBO PASCAL
From:     MAYNARD MARQUIS

In a message of < 3 Mar 90 16:25:32>, Rich Huebner (1:322/14) writes:

> Does anyone know where I can find Turbo Pascal for the Rainbow 100+
>I need a GOOD deal on the price.....

Turbo Pascal 5.5 for the IBM has a command line compiler that runs on
the DEC Rainbow. You cannot use some of the units such as CRT, though. I think
you lose the debugger support as well.

I'm not aware of a Rainbow specific version 5.0 that runs the integrated
development environment. Good luck.

Is anyone aware of a BGI graphics driver for the Rainbow?

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* Origin: TeleTalk BBS 14.4 *HST*(203-674-1802)  (1:142/328)

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Date:     03-10-90 (21:54)
To:       MAYNARD MARQUIS
Subject:  TURBO PASCAL
From:     GEORGE THEALL

MM>I'm not aware of a Rainbow specific version 5.0 that runs the integra
MM>development environment. Good luck.

    While the commandline version of TURBO Pascal v5.0 runs fine "as-is"
on the Rainbow, the IDE requires Code Blue. John Lellis said here last
November that his board (Over the Rainbow...  1:106/503) had available
for download Rainbow-specific CRT and GRAPH units.

MM>Is anyone aware of a BGI graphics driver for the Rainbow?

   How different is a BGI graphics driver from the GRAPH.TPU that comes
with TURBO Pascal? Jim O'Brien of Yale has written a graphics unit
for TURBO Pascal which supposedly replicates the functionality of
Borland's own GRAPH.TPU.

George
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