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From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
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Subject: Re: Floppies and the Rainbow.
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Date: 12 Jul 90 22:45:00 GMT
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>Now that SS is gone, is there any interest in a PD double sided driver
>for the Rainbow?

   Are you kidding? Of course there's interest!!! How many
of us know what'll happen when the RX50's fail? When it happened
to me I waited almost a year until a friend pieced out his Rainbow
after his power supply fried. I would have loved an opportunity to
replace the noisy RX50s with double-sided TEAC drives. And would
have loved it even more if those drives could have handled PC
floppies w/o kludges. I remember being quite excited when Richard
Thomsen announced to the net his BIOS patches. I think he was
even pondering a do-it-yourself kit for adding double-sided
drives and patching the BIOS to support them fully!

    Go for it, Warner!!!

George

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