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Rainbow EchoMail Digest					    Dec  8, 1990

In this issue:
  RE: LA100 PROBLEM         
  RE: RAINBOW QUESTION           (4 messages)
  ANDY BOYCE                


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Date:     12-05-90 (07:47)
To:       DAVID HEID 
Subject:  RE: LA100 PROBLEM 
From:     PAUL OLSON 

David,
 
I don't have the manual for the printer here, but it seems to me that
in order to get the printer into setup mode, there was some
other key sequence, something like Ctrl-Setup.  I could be
wrong.  I might be remembering the keyboardless version which
you had to power up while holding down one of the few keys it
had.  Hope this helps.
 
As Always,
Paul


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Date:     12-05-90 (17:40)
To:       RON KRITZMAN 
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW QUESTION 
From:     FRANK MALLORY 

 RK> Well Paul, it happened like this.  Just about the time the IBM PC came 
 RK> out, DEC decided that the desktops of the workd should (and rightfully 
 RK> so) belong to DEC.  They came out with the Rainbow in about 1983, 
 RK> making it what the IBM-PC should have been.  It could run both 8088 and 
 RK> 8080 code.  It used the well known VT-100 cursor control and line 
 RK> drawing sets, it used serial ports for printers. 
 RK>  It could handle the whole range of memory that the 8088 could address 
 RK> rather than setting an arbitrary limit at 10x the memory that the old 
 RK> 64k machines had.  Smooth scrolling, the setup menus, and a terminal 
 RK> emulator were built in, and the keyboard was (and still is) one of the 
 RK> nicest I've ever used.

On the down side, it was designed to operate with CP/M (sorry, Paul
Olson),  and you  couldn't format non-DEC diskettes on it.


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Date:     12-06-90 (07:41)
To:       FRANK MALLORY 
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW QUESTION 
From:     PAUL OLSON 

Frank,
 
Hey, no need to apologize.  Yes, I still love the 'bow and CP/M, but
even _I_ have outgrown the software on the CP/M side of the
'bow world. I'd say now-a-days, half of my work is on the DOS
side of the world when I work on the 'bow.
 
Sad to say (to the Rainbow community at least), I have been seduced by
the multitasking/graphic nature of the Amiga.  I still use the 
'bow for my word processing (still the best keyboard in the world) 
and my spreadsheets ('cause I'm too cheap to buy Lotus), but the
graphic subsystem was too limited for the type of work that I
do (photo imaging and generated graphics).  So I moved on to the Amiga.
 
I do use the program QC, written by Carl Houseman, to communicate to the
rest of the world.  It has never given me any trouble, unlike
some of the PC clone telecomm packages I use at work.  So the
'bow has become my "Communications Coordinator".  I even use it
as a print server for the Amiga (I'm too lazy to disconnect the
LA50 from the 
'bow to hook it to the Amiga), and as a remote console into the Amiga.
 
I guess, to make a long story short, old computer equipment doesn't die,
it just gets put to different uses! ;-)
 
Oh, yea, by having a 5" IDRIVE on the 'bow, I transfer files from the
VAXen at work, to the PC clones, to the 'bow (via diskette) to
the Amiga!  How's that for round-about!  When you don't have a
dial-  in line to the VAXen, the 'bow comes in _real_ handy.
 
As Always,
Paul


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Date:     12-05-90 (19:49)
To:       FRANK MALLORY 
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW QUESTION 
From:     PATRICK FINK 

Who ever said MS-DOS was better than CPM? :-)
                                                        -Pat


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Date:     12-06-90 (18:58)
To:       PATRICK FINK 
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW QUESTION 
From:     FRANK MALLORY 

 PF> Who ever said MS-DOS was better than CPM? :-)

Microsoft, for one. It's not really a question of which is "better";
the fact  is that DEC bet the personal computer world would
follow CP/M, and IBM bet on  MS-DOS. IBM won.
 

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Date:     12-07-90 (17:18)
To:       ALL 
Subject:  ANDY BOYCE 
From:     ANDY BOYCE 

I have 2 pc100b memory extension cards for the rainbow if anybody wants
them for the grand total of $0.00. There are no ram chips
installed but I do have 36 41256-80 chips that I would like to
sell for $1.49 each.  If interested, call me at 508 460 1643.


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