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From: gt6294b@gitpyr.UUCP (SCHEUTZOW,MICHAEL J)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 16:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 13 16:38:43 1986
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Reply-To: gt6294b@gitpyr.UUCP (SCHEUTZOW,MICHAEL J)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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>>   Digital ignored the personal-computer revolution that was sparked
>>by IBM with its introduction of its PC five years ago...
>
>  OH?  Does he mean that the ill fated DEC Rainbow was just DEC's way
>of ignoring the PC revolution?  So much for truth in press releases.
>
The world may have been better off if the Rainbow had never been produced;
I never had much luck with them.  The school where I did my undergraduate
work had a roomful of them intended to be used as word-processors.  The
problem was that each of their disk drives were aligned differently, so
that people almost always had to use the *same* computer.  (This was true
from day1, so it wasn't just overuse)  Beware if they
didn't -- tracks could get written to slightly different place (I assume)
because the file usually got trashed, so that neither the original machine
or the "new" one could read it.  It was not pleasant explaining to a 
neophyte(sp) user that his/her file was gone.

I also object to disk drives that make an incredible amount of noise (if
you ever used one you know what I mean).  I disliked Apple drives for the
same reason (hearing that CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK as it when to track zero 
should make anybody cringe!)

Oh well.  The good old days.  Flames to /dev/null please.

Mike S.