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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Re: DEC Rainbow
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 13:32:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 13:32:54 1987
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In article <1907@ihuxz.ATT.COM> dutler@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Dutler) writes:
>
>I have been using a Rainbow for 4 years now and I have a mix of double
>and quad density disks. The quad disks I purchase before the formatter
>was available for the Rainbow. The formatter came out for the Rainbow
>in version 2.05 and later of MS-DOS. I now only purchase double sided
>double density disks and have had no problems at all. The only disk

I have a feeling you're wasting your money. All of the Ranbows
we have here (100A, 100B, 100+) use DEC drives which are
SINGLE-side quad density. If you want to risk using double
density it's your decision, but SSDD disks are somwhat cheaper
and should work exactly as well.

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