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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                     Nov 22, 1989

In this issue:
  RE: RE: RAINBOW BASIC
  LA 100 AUTO SHEET FEEDER
  .....
  NOT ENOUGH !!


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Date:     11-18-89 (10:46)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: RE: RAINBOW BASIC
From:     DAN OREILLY

If I remember correctly, it's the interpreter.  However, it really doesn't
matter if it's the compiler or not, as it's the beta version DEC was messing
around with a few years ago (I was a DEC employee at the time).  Rest assured
it's very legal.

DanO

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Date:     11-20-89 (06:42)
To:       ALL
Subject:  LA 100 AUTO SHEET FEEDER
From:     BOB FULLER

I'm having difficulty getting the sheet feeder on my LA 100 to consistently
load the first sheet of paper.

When I follow the users guide (turn on pwr supply, then sheet feeder, then
printer, then form feed) most of the time the first page will not feed because
the feeder rollers do not feed the page into the printer, I get a solid red
error light on the feeder, yet the printer  has paper, is not jamed and the
feeder seems to be installed properly and does pull paper out of the printer.
Looking for help in how to get it working properly or a way to override and
manually load that first sheet.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Bob

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

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Date:     11-20-89 (20:06)
To:       MARK BORNSTEIN
Subject:  .....
From:     GEOFF REED


Mr. Bournstein, I fealt that your latest rash of attacks upon me
deserved at least 1 reply from me.  I purchased the disk from you a few years
ago, shortly after receipt of the disk I sent a money order made out to mark
bornstein to the address you gave on your invoice, which you CLAIM you never
recieved. According to my banks records the money order was cashed.  You
have yet to be reasonable about this, you have yet to send a second invoice
to me if in fact you never recieved payment.
You refuse to follow Proper buisness procedures about this, and have
instead resorted to slandering me nationwide in this public forum.
You are not making a good impression on potential customers out here,
what if they sent you a payment, and it disappeared? would you attempt to
smear their name nationwide?

There is a possibility that you never received the money-order, I
am willing to admit that (for the moment) but there is also the possibility
that you did recieve the M-O and are trying to bilk me out of a lousy
$20.  I had thought of just sending you another $20 but your latest
attack in which this is a response to proves to me that you are acting juvinil
enough that you would just slander me more if I gave in to your juvinile
games.

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

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Date:     11-20-89 (10:37)
To:       AMER NELSON
Subject:  NOT ENOUGH !!
From:     MARK BORNSTEIN

In a message of <17 Nov 89 17:21:42>, Amer Nelson (1:343/3) writes:

>No business I know of carries accounts receivable at 100% on their
>balance sheets.  DIGITAL has an allowance of $74,345,000 as of
>July 1, 1989.  If you've been paid by 4998 out of 5000 you should
>thank your lucky stars and stop re-hashing this -- your collection
>rate is nothing short of phenomenal.

It is really not my collection rate which is phenomenal. It is rather,
the thousands of wonderful Rainbow customers who it was never necessary to
ship C.O.D. to. This applies to all those individuals as well as companies,
both large and small who it was my pleasure to deal with.
Should my phenomenal rate of people who are honorable enough to pay
their bills excuse one CROOK from paying his bill?  With the Rainbow world
ever shrinking, it is important to the few remaining suppliers and users to
know who can and cannot be trusted. I am not the only person he has stiffed.
The other party does not wish to raise the "spectre" of a deadbeat.
To me it is a matter of principle. I did him a favor and sent him something
at my cost because I thought I was helping out a young Rainbow user. He just
plain did not pay $23.00 owing. The money is incidental. I would have contribu
it to our Rainbow group treasury.

He probably paid you because you are physically close and he could
not get away with it. He did not pay his bill to me! He is a deadbeat!

>Also, if you're going to recommend a source for a graphics board,
>try a LOW COST one -- Newman Group -- $75 (November catalog, p. 8).

Ah, you are correct. Jim's graphics boards are not 95 as I said.
Sorry bout that. He is selling them for $65.00.  My mistake. But, moving along
now  with the tenor of your last sentence above, you forgot to compare Jim's
$425 price for a Rainbow with said Newman's. (After all I recommended that
purchase also did I not????) That is of course if I am going to recommend
a source for things you see: Jim's price INCLUDED a 10 meg disk AND CONTROLLER
I think he has 2 Bows left. You forgot to mention that Newman's price for
a 10 meg and controller is $420. So using simple math which I learned in kinde
I think if one were to follow your recommendation and buy from Newman one
would be spending $420 more now wouldn't one? Jim says that while the stuff
lasts he will sell Rainbow goods at the LOWEST prices of any dealer in th
US. I think that makes Jim a "LOW COST one."

...mark



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