360K floppy on a Rainbow ?

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From: Thomas J. Trebisky
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 21:48

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I am wondering what people know about putting an IBM style 360K 48tpi
double sided drive on a Rainbow and getting software setup to read/write
disks to exchange with a PC-XT running MSDOS.  I know commercial products
once were / still are ? sold to do this.  I have a suitable drive sitting
around, so is it just a matter of putting a ribbon cable from the C/D
connector on the floppy controller, and running it to the drive?
Any special tricks with the cable?  Where can I get the software to then
make it work (source code for an installable driver would be the ultimate
thing to track down).  My machine is a PC100B running MSDOS 2.5 (I think 2.5)

Maybe this has appeared here before, I have only read this group for maybe a
week.		Any help or advice will be much appreciated.

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