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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Oct 27, 1990

In this issue:
  RE: CAROLINE MACK
  RE: MS-DOS DISCS
  RAINBOW 100A
  RE: EXTENDED MEMORY OA
  RE: EXTENDED MEMORY ON A
  RE: LA50 TO AT SERIAL POR
  RE: RAINBOW POWER SUPPLIE
  RE: LA 50 PAPER JAMS


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Date:     10-23-90 (12:36)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: CAROLINE MACK
From:     ANDREW TAYLOR

Latest word from Caroline Mack is that they can't move back East
because they can't sell their house!  She claims that a copy of
IRUG newsletter is coming soon (Real Soon Now??).  Your guess as
to what volume/issue/date it will be.......

Andrew


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Date:     10-24-90 (08:21)
To:       ALL
Subject:  RE: MS-DOS DISCS
From:     FRANK ZSITVAY


In article <67.27243A91.@techbks1.FIDONET.ORG>
Amer.Nelson@f3.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Amer Nelson) writes:
>The only disks I know you can read DIRECTLY are IBM single-sided diskettes.
>By that I mean you just stick the diskettes into an RX-50 drive and READ it
>directly -- you can't write to it, however.  There are other ways to get data
>off of double-sided IBM diskettes, but require the use of certain software
>utilities and other hardware products such as I-Drive or access to a 286 or
>386 machine.
>++ Amer ++
>
   I write to them all the time.   never had a problem.

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fzsitvay@techbook.COM - but don't quote me on that....
American Oil Company motto - Bend over, We'll pump!!!


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Date:     10-25-90 (12:32)
To:       ALL
Subject:  RAINBOW 100A
From:     RICK PERSONS

I have a Rainbow 100-a for sale. The only options on this system
are graphic board and color monitor. The motherboard has been updated
to B standards via Trump program. All operating systems software and
graphic software as well as manuals are included. Select Word Processing
for CPM is thrown in as well. Make me an offer.


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Date:     10-24-90 (23:18)
To:       ALAN CONROY
Subject:  RE: EXTED
D MEMORY OA
From:     DAVID MAROUN

Very interesting!

Have you ever tried using a driver for extended memory on your Rainbow?
Or do you know anyone who has?


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Date:     10-24-90 (23:20)
To:       PAUL OLSON
Subject:  RE: EXTENDED MEMORY ON A
From:     DAVID MAROUN

 > Last I heard, the extra memory space on the SS RAMBOW was
 > simply unusable.
 >
The real test, of course, is to *try* using it.  There are drivers in
the public domain for using extended memory on non-Rainbows.  I
sent one to someone who has the RAMBOW, but he has yet to try
it.  He says he is still well within the limits of the memory he has.

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Date:     10-24-90 (23:29)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: LA50 TO AT SERIAL POR
From:     DAVID MAROUN

 > tell me the proper pinouts for a DEC LA50 serial printer
 > to an IBM AT 9 Pin serial port.  Any response would be
 > appreciated...  Thanx...

See the article "Ariadne's Clew" by J. Raymond Parent in the VARUG
newsletter, volume 4, number 4.  Mr. Parent connected an LA100's
pins 2, 3, 7, 20, and 11 to pins 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 of a Toshiba
laptop's 9-pin COM1 port. I would expect the same cable to work
with an LA50.

That newsletter is posted on Glacier Peak bulletin board.


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Date:     10-24-90 (23:38)
To:       ANDREW TAYLOR
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW POWER SUPPLIE
From:     DAVID MAROUN

I cured the problem of a Rainbow's popping its circuit breaker by
cleaning the fan.  It was packed with dust.  The Rainbow still
runs (I am using it right no now) with its original power supply.

A 100A uses an AC fan, while a 100B uses a DC fan.


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Date:     10-24-90 (23:48)
To:       BOB FULLER
Subject:  RE: LA 50 PAPER JAMS
From:     DAVID MAROUN

 >      For the last few days I have been frustrated by paper
 > jams
 > in two LA-50s.  No matter how carefully I aligned the continuous
 > form, 20 lb. paper, it would jam at least every three to
 > four
 > sheets.
 >
 >      Most of the jams occurred because the paper perforation
 > (where you tear the sheets apart and where the paper unbends
 > coming out of the box) would move away from the platen while
 > traveling between the print head and the paper bail.  The
 > print

My solution to that problem is just to move the paper bail away from the
platen.  The manuals for some other printers tell you to do that.

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