Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU!GTHEALL From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Rainbow EchoMail Digest Message-ID: <9102121312.AA29850@remote.dccs.upenn.edu> Date: 12 Feb 91 13:11:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 116 Rainbow EchoMail Digest Feb 12, 1991 In this issue: RE: RAINBOW MEMORY HELP (2 messages) RAINBOW MEMORY HELP RE: RAINBOW CURSOR CONTRO 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 Feb 91 10:42 -0500 From: FRANK MALLORY To: MARC NEWMAN Subject: RE: RAINBOW MEMORY HELP MN> Bob, I have a non-Rainbow 8088 machine (SWP COPOWER) which I have MN> wanted MN> to put a math coprocessor on, but I do not have a empty slot for it. MN> Is MN> this NDP card by any chance something that I could use on a system MN> other MN> than a Rainbow, even if it took some mods? No, you can't use Rainbow cards on anything but a Rainbow. But nearly all PCs have provision for a numeric coprocessor. You don't need a card slot for it; the 8087 chip goes in a socket that is the same size and type (and frequently right next to) the 8088 chip. Take a look at your motherboard and see if there isn't any empty socket on there somewhere. - --- msged 1.99L MSC * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417) ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 91 12:49 -0500 From: DON MARQUART To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: RAINBOW MEMORY HELP > Agreed. The board you have, Jack, is useless if you want to expand > beyond 256K. To do that you'll need a "memory adapter option" (PC1K1-AK) > together with a "base memory module" (PC1XX-AD) which will give you up to > 832K. [It may be possible to use some type of 8087 board in place of the > memory adapter but I don't know.] If memory serves the 8087 board serves the same function as the memory adapter board and adds the coprocessor capability. BTW, I do have a couple of the memory adapter boards still available. Later... - --- ConfMail V4.00 * Origin: Club Micro (303)973-8578 VHST/V32/V42b (1:104/888) ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 91 15:24 -0500 From: CARL HOUSEMAN To: ALAN CONROY Subject: RE: RAINBOW CURSOR CONTRO re: direct moving of cursor... I thought once that the cursor was an attribute. But I can't say for sure any more. One way to find out is to disassemble the code that executes to parse a cursor positioning escape sequence, but that's a LOT of work. Good luck... - --- ConfMail V4.00 * Origin: SYS$OUTPUT BBS * Library, PA * Fido 12t * 412.854.0511 * (1:129/38) ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 91 08:03 -0500 From: RON KRITZMAN To: JACK ANDERSON Subject: RE: RAINBOW MEMORY HELP Jack, There were two different versions of that expansion memory board. One had soldered-in chips, the other had sockets and switches. The change came about when they switched from the "A" to the "B" version motherboard. There is an adapter out there whilc will let the B version memory card work in the A Rainbow. The obvious thing to do once you get all that RAM in there is to make a nice sized ramdrive so you can capture and download from Packet w/o waiting for the 'bow's notoriosly slow and noisy floppys. If you haven't already discovered it, the far-and-away best term program for the Rainbow under MS-DOS is LCTERM, available from almost any Rainbow BBS. By the way.. I have a Televideo Portable (CP/M) similarly rescued from the trash which is in use as my own Packet station. The Rainbow is my wife's word proc and terminal for calling work, and my primary machine is (boo, hiss) Bozo the Clone. -73- Ron - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: Chicago's BIT WIZ Opus HST (Net 115 NEC) (1:115/689.0) ------------------------------ End of Rainbow EchoMail Digest ******************************