Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU!GTHEALL From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Rainbow EchoMail Digest Message-ID: <9010271204.AA17792@remote.dccs.upenn.edu> Date: 27 Oct 90 13:06:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 168 Rainbow EchoMail Digest Oct 27, 1990 In this issue: RE: CAROLINE MACK RE: MS-DOS DISCS RAINBOW 100A RE: EXTENDED MEMORY OA RE: EXTENDED MEMORY ON A RE: LA50 TO AT SERIAL POR RE: RAINBOW POWER SUPPLIE RE: LA 50 PAPER JAMS Articles posted to either INFO-DEC-MICRO or comp.sys.dec.micro are currently gatewayed to the Rainbow Echo on FidoNet. You do not need to take special action to respond to articles in these digests. Please send reports of problems or suggestions for improvement of this digest to GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (Internet). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 10-23-90 (12:36) To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: RE: CAROLINE MACK From: ANDREW TAYLOR Latest word from Caroline Mack is that they can't move back East because they can't sell their house! She claims that a copy of IRUG newsletter is coming soon (Real Soon Now??). Your guess as to what volume/issue/date it will be....... Andrew - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-24-90 (08:21) To: ALL Subject: RE: MS-DOS DISCS From: FRANK ZSITVAY In article <67.27243A91.@techbks1.FIDONET.ORG> Amer.Nelson@f3.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Amer Nelson) writes: >The only disks I know you can read DIRECTLY are IBM single-sided diskettes. >By that I mean you just stick the diskettes into an RX-50 drive and READ it >directly -- you can't write to it, however. There are other ways to get data >off of double-sided IBM diskettes, but require the use of certain software >utilities and other hardware products such as I-Drive or access to a 286 or >386 machine. >++ Amer ++ > I write to them all the time. never had a problem. - -- fzsitvay@techbook.COM - but don't quote me on that.... American Oil Company motto - Bend over, We'll pump!!! - --- QM v1.00 * Origin: TECHbooks One, Fido Gate to techbook (503) 644-8135 (1:105/369.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-25-90 (12:32) To: ALL Subject: RAINBOW 100A From: RICK PERSONS I have a Rainbow 100-a for sale. The only options on this system are graphic board and color monitor. The motherboard has been updated to B standards via Trump program. All operating systems software and graphic software as well as manuals are included. Select Word Processing for CPM is thrown in as well. Make me an offer. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Cuckoo's Nest, Hudson, NHt/]KW=>Hm) *HST* (1:132/119.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-24-90 (23:18) To: ALAN CONROY Subject: RE: EXTED D MEMORY OA From: DAVID MAROUN Very interesting! Have you ever tried using a driver for extended memory on your Rainbow? Or do you know anyone who has? - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-24-90 (23:20) To: PAUL OLSON Subject: RE: EXTENDED MEMORY ON A From: DAVID MAROUN > Last I heard, the extra memory space on the SS RAMBOW was > simply unusable. > The real test, of course, is to *try* using it. There are drivers in the public domain for using extended memory on non-Rainbows. I sent one to someone who has the RAMBOW, but he has yet to try it. He says he is still well within the limits of the memory he has. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-24-90 (23:29) To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: RE: LA50 TO AT SERIAL POR From: DAVID MAROUN > tell me the proper pinouts for a DEC LA50 serial printer > to an IBM AT 9 Pin serial port. Any response would be > appreciated... Thanx... See the article "Ariadne's Clew" by J. Raymond Parent in the VARUG newsletter, volume 4, number 4. Mr. Parent connected an LA100's pins 2, 3, 7, 20, and 11 to pins 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 of a Toshiba laptop's 9-pin COM1 port. I would expect the same cable to work with an LA50. That newsletter is posted on Glacier Peak bulletin board. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-24-90 (23:38) To: ANDREW TAYLOR Subject: RE: RAINBOW POWER SUPPLIE From: DAVID MAROUN I cured the problem of a Rainbow's popping its circuit breaker by cleaning the fan. It was packed with dust. The Rainbow still runs (I am using it right no now) with its original power supply. A 100A uses an AC fan, while a 100B uses a DC fan. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 10-24-90 (23:48) To: BOB FULLER Subject: RE: LA 50 PAPER JAMS From: DAVID MAROUN > For the last few days I have been frustrated by paper > jams > in two LA-50s. No matter how carefully I aligned the continuous > form, 20 lb. paper, it would jam at least every three to > four > sheets. > > Most of the jams occurred because the paper perforation > (where you tear the sheets apart and where the paper unbends > coming out of the box) would move away from the platen while > traveling between the print head and the paper bail. The > print My solution to that problem is just to move the paper bail away from the platen. The manuals for some other printers tell you to do that. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------