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Rainbow EchoMail Digest					    Mar 19, 1991

In this issue:
  RE: HELP - RD53 BAD SECTO 
  RE: FOSSIL NEEDED FOR BOW 
  RE: QUESTION              
  MEDIA MASTER              
  RE: KERMIT                
  FLOPPY DISKETTE DENSITIES 


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Date:     17 Mar 91  07:37 -0500
From:     BOB FULLER 
To:       GEORGE THEALL 
Subject:  RE: HELP - RD53 BAD SECTO 

        I have been running a RD53 with no problem, formated with 
WUTIL.  Check to see if the connections(plugs) to the RD53 are firmly
seated, including no sideways pressure.
 
        I used the original DEC cable after modifying it with a Dremel
type drum sander to grind down the plastic on the plug that blocked
them from firm seating.  I took a lot of plastic off
 
        When I was making the change to the RD53, I was advised the 
the normal DEC cable may not not be thick enough for the drive.   The
symptom was many bad sectors.  I did not have this problem, but
if the original advise I was given is accurate, perhaps your
manufactured cable is too thin for the RD53 application. 

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

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Date:     17 Mar 91  00:59 -0500
From:     VAN VANHORN 
To:       NOLAN LEE 
Subject:  RE: FOSSIL NEEDED FOR BOW 

The Fossil you need is DECCOMM, and your Bow will work just fine as a
point.  My Bow works just fine as a bulletin board at 9600 bps
afterall, and it isn't the only one.
 
The author of Binkleyterm was running a Bow as his BBS last I heard, so
you can figure that Bink is going to behave on your system as well.
 
                                        + vanhorn +


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 * Origin: Horsefeathers + Question authority! + (1:343/30.0)

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Date:     17 Mar 91  09:53 -0500
From:     VAN VANHORN 
To:       BOB SMITH 
Subject:  RE: QUESTION 

 >
 >  NL> Frank, was the 60 meg hd a "slip it in and go" operation?
 >  NL> I didn't think that Rainbow would recongnize anything
 > over 30meg.
 >
 > Rainbow works with upto 67 meg disk (but ONLY 8 heads).
 >
Please!  The Rainbow hard drive controller imposes an absolute limit of
64 Megabytes, which is reached only when there are 8 (or more)
heads and 1024 (or more) cylinders because there is also a
limit of 16 sectors per track (8K).
 
CHKDSK will report 67108864 Total Bytes in disk, which I don't really
like (I would prefer it told me 65,536 KB), but CHKDSK makes no
claim that 67 Million bytes is one nibble over 64 Megs.
 
When major applications came on two 3740 disks (Single Sided Single
Density 8" floppies for any latecomers <grin>) and ten meg hard
drives were still big, advertisers playing fast and loose with
this difference weren't a big deal.  Besides, at 10 megs, it
isn't much difference. At 64 megs, it is substantial.
 

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 * Origin: Horsefeathers + Question authority! + (1:343/30.0)

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Date:     18 Mar 91  15:31 -0500
From:     NOLAN LEE 
To:       ALL INTERESTED PARTIES 
Subject:  MEDIA MASTER 

Does anyone have a copy of Media Master for the Rainbow that they are
tired of and want to sell?
Thanks, Nolan.


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 * Origin: Nolan's Point (1:390/2.7)

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Date:     18 Mar 91  02:04 -0500
From:     PAUL ROBINSON 
To:       GEORGE THEALL 
Subject:  RE: KERMIT 

TO: Chris Sasaki
  
 I have a copy of the MS-DOS generic Kermit.  If you want a copy and
have an assembler, I can send it to you.  I can send it on 5
1/4" 8 sector single sided disks, but all the disks I have have
hub rings, and I have heard that can cause a problem [my
computer is an IBM klone].  It will take about 8 diskettes to do this.  
  
 If you want it, send me $5, I'll send back a box of diskettes with the
sources on it along with a couple of things.  I will even
compile a copy of it and you can try that but if it doesn't
work you'll have the set of MS-DOS generic sources as
uncompressed files.  If you are interested, you can contact me at:
  
 Paul Robinson
 P O Box 70970
 Washington, DC 20024-0970
  
 There are two parts; the documentation for kermit that takes up about
300K and something over 500K of sources.  I can send them out
as uncompressed source files.


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

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Date:     18 Mar 91  23:47 -0500
From:     HOWARD HALL 
To:       ALL 
Subject:  FLOPPY DISKETTE DENSITIES 

     I have a feeling that a lot of the 'wordage' concerning densities 
on available diskettes is nothing but PR flack.  I know, for example,
that I only need SS (single sided) diskettes for my Rainbow,
but I get DS (double sided) so that I have a 'common' diskette
that I can easily reformat and use elsewhere.  (I also function
as System Manager for the IBM PS/2 system at church, this
simplifies logistics).
 
     I also need to purchase 3.5" diskettes from time to time for 
the IBM, and I know that I need DS for that.  So far, I have used DD
(double density) exclusively for the 5.25" diskettes (both
systems) and for the 3.5" diskettes for the IBM.  I would
appreciate a dissertation on the need/usefulness of HD (high
density) diskettes in both the above categories.
 
     Help!!
 
                                 Howie


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

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