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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Jun 17, 1990

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  RE: ST-225 IN PRO 350
  RE: RAINBOW KEYBOARD CABL


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Date:     06-12-90 (23:13)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: ST-225 IN PRO 350
From:     BILL MAYHEW

I'm not sure what to tell you *to* do (since I don't use RT-11) but I can
tell you what you're doing wrong...
Formatting the disk on the Rainbow is counterproductive.  The formats
are different.
When using P/OS, the installation procedure automatically formats the
hard disk for you.  I don't know if the RT-11 install procedure does the
same thing or not.  DEC originally shipped all its hard disks for the Pro
pre-formatted (um, actually, not "originally", but "at one time") so the
version of RT-11 that you're working with may assume a pre-formatted disk.
(By the way, these Pro-related questions would fit better in the PDP-11
echo, since the Pro is a PDP-11.)
- -Bill


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Date:     06-12-90 (23:17)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW KEYBOARD CABL
From:     BILL MAYHEW

The problem with using a regular phone cable is that the typical, garden-variet
version of such cable does not contain heavy-enough conductors to carry
the current drawn by the keyboard (the keyboard has no power supply, and
draws its DC voltage from the system unit).


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