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- From: epass@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eric Pass)
- Subject: Re:Rainbow 100
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.153338.6990@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:33:38 GMT
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- Carl Hoff and Bill Pechter are discussing some of the hardware
- characteristics of the Rainbow:
-
- CH> I am in the process of acquiring a retired Rainbow for a friend.
- CH> I see the manual and previous posters discuss a couple things.
- CH> First a Z-80 and a 8088/6 >processor.
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- BP> The Z80/8088 dual processor configuration is standard in ALL Rainbows.
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- <Discussion of DEC DOS 2.11 deleted>
-
- CH> is the controller and needed stuff available, cheap, can some/many/all
- CH> of the currently available st-412 drives be used with the system
- CH> (albeit with limited capacity).
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- BP> You can use any ST506 drive. The controller, however is the harder
- BP> thing to find.
-
- Amen to this!! I'm looking for a hard disk controller as well, with
- no luck so far. If anyone knows of a source, could they post or
- Email as they see fit.
-
- Thanks,
- Eric. (epass@nyx.cs.du.edu)
-