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From: brantley@cerritos.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: New User help needed
Message-ID: <1991May18.140926.6043@cerritos.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 21:09:26 GMT
References: <1991May14.212054.3693@waikato.ac.nz>
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA
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In article <1991May14.212054.3693@waikato.ac.nz>, atc@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> I may be about to get hold of a Dec Rainbow, and am wondering how
> you go about adding a harddisk drive to such a beast.
> I have a spare 5 1/4" Full height original IBM 20 meg drive 
> can I fit this?
> Also which version of msdos can you run on them.
> Any hope of graphics?
> 
> Thanx for any help
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Chambers
> Computer Services
> University of Waikato
> New Zealand
> 
> ATC@WAIKATO.AC.NZ
-- 

         The Rainbow takes both full-height and half-height ST-506
         type drives. Your biggest problem is finding a hard disk
         conroller card for the beast.  

         I have two Rainbow 100A's at home, one has a 5-meg hard disk. 
         I use the one with the hard disk as a terminal to dial into
         the VAXes at work.

         The Rainbow had MS-DOS 2.11 from DEC and I believe a MS-DOS
         3.0 from a third party.

         The Rainbow had a graphics board.  And for it's time, circa
         1982-83 it was the very best graphics for a PC.  There was a
         14 inch color monitor sold by DEC which was real nice.

         If your machine has the graphics card and a color monitor,
         get a copy of SCRAM.  It is a game used by DEC as a color
         graphics demo and deals with nuclear reactors on the moon.
Douglas Brantley, Cerritos College, 11110 E. Alondra Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650
Voice: 213-860-2451 ext 219,  InterNet:  BRANTLEY@CERRITOS.EDU