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Rainbow EchoMail Digest					    Jan 22, 1991

In this issue:
  RE: RAINBOW100+ MEMORY UP 
  RAINBOW100+ MEMORY UPGRAD 
  RE: PRODIGY               
  3.5" DRIVES FOR RAINBOW   


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Date:     20 Jan 91  15:16 -0500
From:     PAUL OLSON 
To:       GEORGE THEALL 
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW100+ MEMORY UP 

To Thomas:
 
Did you install the chips with the indent mark in the proper
orientation? I'm not going to tear my system open.  Perhaps
someone else can elaborate?  They should have gone in in the
same orientation as the old chips.
 
As Always,
Paul


- --- Opus-CBCS 1.14
 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0)

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Date:     19 Jan 91  16:27 -0500
From:     BOB SMITH 
To:       GEORGE THEALL 
Subject:  RAINBOW100+ MEMORY UPGRAD 

If you have a 100A motherboard you need an adaptor or the 8087 board to
use the 100B memory card.  Check the serial number sticker on
the back, PC-100 = 100A, unless motherboard changed. 

I have installed three card and had no problems.  Watch pin 1 on chips. 

What size chip do you have installed in each of the three banks?

- --- msged 2.06
 * Origin: Bob's_point of Cuckoo's Nest : Hudson, NH  (1:132/119.4)

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Date:     20 Jan 91  16:11 -0500
From:     DAVID HEID 
To:       BOB SMITH 
Subject:  RE: PRODIGY 

Thanks Bob, for answering me. To bad about not being able to use the
Rainbow with Prodigy. I let one of my kids have one of the four
Rainbows that I have and I couldn't get the program running on
his so I put it on my '386 and it is an interesting product. 
 BTW I used to live in Maine and still have a daughter in Portland. I
still have a summer camp near Belfast Maine. How's the weather
in NH about now. Have you had the January thaw yet??
 Thanks again for the Answer. It's people like you and Frank that keeps
me watching the messages on this forum.


- --- Opus-CBCS 1.12
 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0)

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Date:     20 Jan 91  20:04 -0500
From:     WARNER LOSH 
To:       HOWARD HALL 
Subject:  3.5" DRIVES FOR RAINBOW 

In the next few weeks I'll be putting together a Rainbow 3.5" drive "kit"
that will allow people to have the same functionality as the I-Drive 3.5"
drive that suitable solutions distributed.  The main holdup at this point is
the lack of a formatting program on the Rainbow.  If anyone cares to offer
assistance in this matter, I'd love to hear from you.  I already have the
old FORIBM.COM CP/M program, but have been so far unable to make full use
of it.

The "kit" will be sourceware.  I'll provide the source, binaries, and some
documentation.  I'm planning on asking for $5 if you like it and use
it.  I'm planning on placing a copyright on the code similar to
either the X
windows copyright, or the GNU copyleft.  Probably, something closer to
the latter since the 'Bow is now basically a public domain, you-support-
it-yourself machine.

If you have any suggestions about what I should/shouldn't support, please
drop me a line.  I can be reached on fidonet at 104/114.6 (warner losh) or
at imp@Solbourne.COM on the internet.


- --- msged 1.99S ZTC
 * Origin: DinoPoint 6  (1:104/114.6)

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