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From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
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Subject: Rainbow EchoMail Digest
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Date: 26 Jul 90 18:32:00 GMT
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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Jul 26, 1990

In this issue:
  RE: RAINBOW INFO
  Misc. Questions


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Date:     07-24-90 (19:20)
To:       PAUL OLSON
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW INFO
From:     ALAN CONROY

  The MicroCHS board is no longer manufactured, nor do I know of
anyone who will fix broken ones.  Nor do I know of anyone who sells
used ones.  However, several brokers do sell used DEC Rainbow hard
disk controllers.  Note that the DEC controllers work just fine,
except in the following circumstances:

1) You want to run two disks off the controller,

2) You are trying to connect a drive with connectors in places that
   will not work with the DEC controller's cable (the RD53 being
   a prime example).

If you have one of the above situations, the thing to do is find
someone who has a MicroCHS board AND does not have either of the above
restrictions.  Then buy a used DEC controller and trade it for the
MicroCHS controller (that's what I did).


- --- Opus-CBCS 1.12
 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431
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Date:     07-26-90 (08:01)
To:       ALL
Subject:  Misc. Questions
From:     GEORGE THEALL

    Hey, where'd everybody go? This echo's been dead for the past
week. Maybe the following questions will pick things up again.

    Whatever happened to _Rainbow News_? It's been about 9 months
since the last issue, I believe. Is Caroline still publishing?

    Any word about Windows v3.0 on the Rainbow? Has Len Burke made any
progress on it yet?

    Has anyone used Warner Losh's RBINT (now called RABIT) in its beta
form? It's a TSR designed to reroute requests to take over int 18h by
other programs; eg, Turbo C v2.0, Turbo C++, v1.0, etc... Does it run
on your system? Have you used it successfully in combination with
programs?

George
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