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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
- Subject: Re: Rainbow 100+
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.190643.22678@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:06:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.113407.5893@ais.com> <1992Dec11.231842.1775@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Dec11.221053.5894@ais.com>
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- In article <1992Dec11.221053.5894@ais.com> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
- >
- >Must have been close to the time DEC dropped the Rainbow then. I'm
- >quite sure that when we first got ST225's to upgrade from the old 5MB
- >ST506 drives, that we had to get WUTIL then because the DEC disk
- >formatting software would not recognize the drive.
-
- I don't remember which drives, but there was a DECdirect catalog claiming
- Rainbow disk upgrades, and I believe that RD-31 was one of the listed drives.
- In any case, it claimed that whatever was needed was provided, and this was
- certainly for larger drives than the 5 and 10. (I am certain one was the
- RD-52.)
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- cjl
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