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From: iav1917%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (alan i. vymetalik)
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Subject: Re: PD software for Rainbows.
Keywords: Rainbow, 10 Meg, 384K, Public Domain, Free
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Date: 31 Aug 89 03:24:12 GMT
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In article <1823@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman) writes:
>Hi. I recently just came into possession of a DEC rainbow. Does anyone out
>there know of any sources of PD software for it? I'm specifically looking
>for a nice text editor (even TECO) or some compilers (I have turbo pascal,
>would really like C) 
>
>jerry altzman

   Jerry,

   As a follow-on to George Theall's posting...

   If you can't FTP around on the networks, you may want to use your
   modem and call up the "world's only Fido V12 BBS running on a DEC
   Rainbow."  Whether or not Fido or the statement makes any difference
   to you, what the BBS has on-line is what's important.  The BBS is
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide" (yes, as in the book, TV show, radio series...).
   The machine is a Rainbow 100+ running a 67Mb hard disk and supports
   1200 and 2400 baud modems (8 bit, no parity, 1 stop bit).  It's up
   24 hours a day and it's free.  It's almost exclusively a Rainbow
   software board, but it does sport IBM PC software.  Call 1-315-589-7361.
   The Sysop is Fritz Howard.  Say hi and tell him I sent you.
   "The Guide" is one of the largest Rainbow BBSs anywhere in the world
   that's still up and running.

   (I am receiving no money for this announcement. ;-)

   By the way, as far as editors go, Brief is the best editor available
   on the Rainbow... of course,  you have to be running Suitable Solutions'
   Rainbow MS-DOS V3.10B and Code Blue V2.01.  The latest patches and the
   IBM Character ROM for the Rainbow are nice additions as well.  E-mail
   me if you want to know more...

   Enjoy,
   Alan

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