Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SSCTEMP.SAS.UPENN.EDU!theall From: theall@SSCTEMP.SAS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Rainbow EchoMail Digest Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 90 18:56:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 143 Rainbow EchoMail Digest Dec 8, 1990 In this issue: RE: LA100 PROBLEM RE: RAINBOW QUESTION (4 messages) ANDY BOYCE 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: 12-05-90 (07:47) To: DAVID HEID Subject: RE: LA100 PROBLEM From: PAUL OLSON David, I don't have the manual for the printer here, but it seems to me that in order to get the printer into setup mode, there was some other key sequence, something like Ctrl-Setup. I could be wrong. I might be remembering the keyboardless version which you had to power up while holding down one of the few keys it had. Hope this helps. As Always, Paul - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0) ------------------------------ Date: 12-05-90 (17:40) To: RON KRITZMAN Subject: RE: RAINBOW QUESTION From: FRANK MALLORY RK> Well Paul, it happened like this. Just about the time the IBM PC came RK> out, DEC decided that the desktops of the workd should (and rightfully RK> so) belong to DEC. They came out with the Rainbow in about 1983, RK> making it what the IBM-PC should have been. It could run both 8088 and RK> 8080 code. It used the well known VT-100 cursor control and line RK> drawing sets, it used serial ports for printers. RK> It could handle the whole range of memory that the 8088 could address RK> rather than setting an arbitrary limit at 10x the memory that the old RK> 64k machines had. Smooth scrolling, the setup menus, and a terminal RK> emulator were built in, and the keyboard was (and still is) one of the RK> nicest I've ever used. On the down side, it was designed to operate with CP/M (sorry, Paul Olson), and you couldn't format non-DEC diskettes on it. - --- msged 1.99L MSC * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417) ------------------------------ Date: 12-06-90 (07:41) To: FRANK MALLORY Subject: RE: RAINBOW QUESTION From: PAUL OLSON Frank, Hey, no need to apologize. Yes, I still love the 'bow and CP/M, but even _I_ have outgrown the software on the CP/M side of the 'bow world. I'd say now-a-days, half of my work is on the DOS side of the world when I work on the 'bow. Sad to say (to the Rainbow community at least), I have been seduced by the multitasking/graphic nature of the Amiga. I still use the 'bow for my word processing (still the best keyboard in the world) and my spreadsheets ('cause I'm too cheap to buy Lotus), but the graphic subsystem was too limited for the type of work that I do (photo imaging and generated graphics). So I moved on to the Amiga. I do use the program QC, written by Carl Houseman, to communicate to the rest of the world. It has never given me any trouble, unlike some of the PC clone telecomm packages I use at work. So the 'bow has become my "Communications Coordinator". I even use it as a print server for the Amiga (I'm too lazy to disconnect the LA50 from the 'bow to hook it to the Amiga), and as a remote console into the Amiga. I guess, to make a long story short, old computer equipment doesn't die, it just gets put to different uses! ;-) Oh, yea, by having a 5" IDRIVE on the 'bow, I transfer files from the VAXen at work, to the PC clones, to the 'bow (via diskette) to the Amiga! How's that for round-about! When you don't have a dial- in line to the VAXen, the 'bow comes in _real_ handy. As Always, Paul - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0) ------------------------------ Date: 12-05-90 (19:49) To: FRANK MALLORY Subject: RE: RAINBOW QUESTION From: PATRICK FINK Who ever said MS-DOS was better than CPM? :-) -Pat - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0) ------------------------------ Date: 12-06-90 (18:58) To: PATRICK FINK Subject: RE: RAINBOW QUESTION From: FRANK MALLORY PF> Who ever said MS-DOS was better than CPM? :-) Microsoft, for one. It's not really a question of which is "better"; the fact is that DEC bet the personal computer world would follow CP/M, and IBM bet on MS-DOS. IBM won. - --- msged 1.99L MSC * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417) ------------------------------ Date: 12-07-90 (17:18) To: ALL Subject: ANDY BOYCE From: ANDY BOYCE I have 2 pc100b memory extension cards for the rainbow if anybody wants them for the grand total of $0.00. There are no ram chips installed but I do have 36 41256-80 chips that I would like to sell for $1.49 each. If interested, call me at 508 460 1643. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: WayStar BBS (1:322/14.0) ------------------------------