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From: klr@hadron.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: Wanted -- Formatter for DEC Rainbow Disks
Message-ID: <458@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 16:09:01 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.458
Posted: Tue Feb 10 16:09:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 07:17:27 EST
References: <486@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 23
Keywords: formatter, DEC, Rainbow

In article <486@ubu.warwick.UUCP> daffy@ubu.UUCP (Steve Hunt) writes:
>Howdy folks,
>
>A friend of mine is the (proud?) owner of a DEC Rainbow micro with
>two 360k drives.  But, as many of you are no doubt aware, DEC in their
>wisdom did not distribute a formatter with the machine -- so he is
>stuck at the moment with a very limited number of usable disks.
>

Every Rainbow I have ever owned (2 of em) has always come with a formatter
for the floppies.  If you are looking for a winchester formatter, call
the The Pot of Gold FIDO at the number listed in the .signature.

Old Rainbows never die, they just become FIDO BBS.


 Kurt Reisler
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