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From: pnessutt@nis.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: DEC Rainbow
Message-ID: <182@nis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 08:27:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 08:27:38 1987
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In article <1187@hope.UUCP> jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) writes:
>Does anyone in netland know what type of disks a Dec Rainbow can
>read/write?  We are doing some software development and need to do it for a
>rainbow but have only an AT and Dec Pro350 available.  Help!
>

We have 2 Rainbow's here and we presently use a mixture of 3M RX-50
diskettes and DEC supplied RX-50 diskettes.  These diskettes a bit
more expensive than normal DSDD diskettes but they are reliable.  The
only notable problem we have faced with them is that they have no hub
ring and this causes them to get beat up a bit if your drives are
flaky.  We have also used normal DSDD diskettes but usually only 3M's.
Many of the other brands we have tryed (except Fuji but you don't find
those around much anymore) tend not to be too reliable.  

The Rainbow's drives are noisy, arn't they?  (I imagine you'd be noise
too if you had one R/W head that had to be shared between two single
sided diskettes)
 
Hope this helps.   -Bob


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