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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Re: uvax floppies
Message-ID: <8609101341.AA11395@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Sat, 23-Aug-86 10:27:05 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 23 10:27:05 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Sep-86 08:20:49 EDT
References: <8608181212.AA20234@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
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Reply-To: campbell%maynard.UUCP@harvisr.HARVARD.EDU (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Keywords: Rainbow MS-DOS formatter floppy
Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa
Summary: Use a Rainbow

In article <8608181212.AA20234@mitre-bedford.ARPA> ted@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes:
>In a  lab  I used to  work in we had an  11/73 with the  same  type of
>floppies.  We used non-DEC floppies formatted on a Rainbow  and had no
>problems  at  all with the disks.   If you can find a  Rainbow and the
>formatting program, give it a shot.

"Finding" the formatting program shouldn't be hard -- it's on the MS-DOS
distribution diskette.  No, in the bad old days of DOS 2.01 it wasn't
included, but DEC was quickly flamed into submission and included it on
the 2.05 and 2.11 distributions.  If you only have 2.01 you should upgrade
for lots of other reasons too -- the 2.01 BIOS stinks.  If you have a Rainbow
under maintenance DEC will send you the latest version of DOS for the asking.
-- 
Larry Campbell                             The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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