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From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Sep  6, 1990

In this issue:
  RESPONSES TO ITEMS PAST
  RE: WINDOWS 3.0


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Date:     09-02-90 (15:02)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RESPONSES TO ITEMS PAST
From:     AMER NELSON

George, I've never really understood how the FIDONET/Rainbow Echo link
 works.  I've tried to answer questions by sending them to you and as-
 suming that they SOMEHOW got relayed on.  Back (waaay back) in June,
 David Willcox of Urbana, IL had a question about disks to use on a
 Rainbow.  Could you let him know that BASF makes a SSDD disk which is
 certified for 96 TPI?  I used to get them from an outfit called Lyben
 (or Lyban) located in Ann Arbor and they were reasonably priced --
 this was before I started using ordinary (usually Maxell) DD disks,
 SS or DS whichever were cheaper.  I recently found some of the BASF
 disks here in Seattle for $5/box of 10, but that was a local closeout.
 Also, back on 16 August you posted a message from Henry W. Miller who
 was interested in obtaining dBaseIII for the Rainbow.  Sometime back
 Half Price Software here in Seattle had such a copy.  They were asking
 $49.95.  Their phone number is (206) 547-7620.  They may or may not
 still have it -- for some reason Rainbow software can sit around for
 months or years gathering dust!
 Finally, Bruce Wright poor-mouthed the ST-225 drives -- also on 16
 August.  My RD-31 (purchased at the Digital Sale at DECUS for $80 a
 couple of years ago) has given me no problem at all.  Maybe there's
 something to DEC's claim that their stringent QC standards make an
 RD-31 more valuable that an ST-225 purchased through a discounter.
 ++ Amer ++


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Date:     09-04-90 (09:29)
To:       BILL MAYHEW
Subject:  RE: WINDOWS 3.0
From:     FRANK MALLORY

 BM> I don't think you'd find Pagemaker or Ventura useable on a non-Turbowed
 BM> Rainbow.  Both programs are quite CPU-intensive.

Can you or anybody suggest an alternative?


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