Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.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: 13 Mar 91 21:52:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 116 Rainbow EchoMail Digest Mar 13, 1991 In this issue: QUESTION HELP - RD53 BAD SECTORS LA-50 RIBBONS FORSALE WORDPERFECT FOR THE BOW RE: RAINBOW DOS RECOVERY- 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: 11 Mar 91 13:32 -0500 From: BOB SMITH To: NOLAN LEE Subject: QUESTION On , Nolan Lee (1:390/2.7) wrote to Frank Mallory: NL> Frank, was the 60 meg hd a "slip it in and go" operation? NL> I didn't think that Rainbow would recongnize anything over 30meg. Rainbow works with upto 67 meg disk (but ONLY 8 heads). - --- msged 2.06 * Origin: Bob's_point of Cuckoo's Nest : Hudson, NH (1:132/119.4) ------------------------------ Date: 12 Mar 91 06:36 -0500 From: FRANK MALLORY To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: HELP - RD53 BAD SECTORS GT> I have a major problem. I have an Rainbow 100b with a 10MB disk. I have GT> been given an rd53 and want to put it in my rainbow. Since I couldn't GT> use the original cable (connects are resessed too far), I built a GT> cable. I then cranked up WUTIL V3.2 (using MS-DOS V3.1) and tried to GT> initialize/format the drive. I have over 20,000 bad sectors. There seem GT> to be two sections of the disk that do not report bad sectors. Two possible problems: WUTIL won't work with the official DOS 3.10, and you need to change the drive jumpers when changing the RD53 from VAX to Rainbow. The fact that your copy of WUTIL even _tries_ to format means it is probably the jumpers. - --- msged 1.99L MSC * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417) ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 91 22:47 -0500 From: GEOFF REED To: ALL Subject: LA-50 RIBBONS FORSALE I have 84 LA-50 ribbons forsale, they also work on imagewriters, c-ithos, NEC's and many other printers, they are going for $1.50 each, plus shipping if out of the greater seattle area. (I'll deliver in the seattle area for $2.00 for petrol.) or you can pick them up I can be reached at (206) 874-6914 - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 11 Mar 91 10:04 -0500 From: DAVID STRICKLER To: BOB SMITH Subject: WORDPERFECT FOR THE BOW Rumor has it that Carolyn Mack is selling WP 4.2 for the Bow. WordPerfect themselves can't get their act together to ship me one. I tried 5 times for a customer, and they shipped a PC version everytime! David Strickler Sysop of 101/45 Midnight DEC (Boston) (617)739-0708 [Voice] - --- msged 1.99S ZTC * Origin: Midnight DEC (1:101/45) ------------------------------ Date: 11 Mar 91 17:14 -0500 From: JACK STEVENS To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: RE: RAINBOW DOS RECOVERY- The older versions of Norton (I have 3.0) were smaller and did work on the Rainbow without Code Blue, having had less fancy menus. I regret that I cannot offer any help on how you might obtain a copy, however. - --- * Origin: Midnight DEC - The BBS for DEC sales & information (Opus 1:101/45) ------------------------------ End of Rainbow EchoMail Digest ******************************