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From: rl1b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert A. Locke)
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Subject: Rainbows
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 19:16:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 19:16:23 1987
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You can count me in too.  I also have a Rainbow that I use to do
consulting of the database variety for various people.  I still
believe that the Rainbow was the best damn engineered machine in
its time.  I am not extremely impressed with the VAXmate nor am
I enthused about DEC's killing of certain projects for my machine.
Namely the Network Integration Kit and MS-DOS 3.1.  I really didn't
care whether or not I got MS-Windows but those other two could
have been valuable to me.  I have seen a prototype of MS-DOS 3.1
and think DEC should just release the thing with minimal support.
I have heard that many people are using it with no problems.

Well, enough of that.  I am fairly knowledgable about the strengths
and weaknesses of my machine and if I don't know the necessary
information, I can usually find it from somebody.

My machine is your basic 100B with full memory, graphics option,
20meg hard disk, both mono and color monitors (the color is not
DEC's though I should have gotten DEC's but that's another story),
an LA-50 (though I should probably get an LA75, can anyone believe
that DEC is still charging the same price for the LA50 and 75??),
and an I-Drive.  The I-Drive is a 360K floppy drive that really
reads and writes IBM double-sided floppies.

Well, that's enough about me.

As to a digest.  I don't think this news group has one.  Seeing as
I'm the one currently maintaining the list (and not knowing much
more about how this stuff works other than that adds and delete
requests keep coming to me along with the mail yelling and screaming
about networks being down, etc.), I would probably be willing to
do a digest.  I also like the idea of some sort of link between
us and the active Fido Rainbow Echomail.  I don't even know at this
point if I'm supposed to be moderating this stuff or if I just
maintain the list.  The whole thing got dropped in my lap a while
ago....  So anyways.  I guess since people are looking for increased
volume etc on here, I should go get some questions answered about
my role....

Well, happy Rainbow hacking and if anyone knows anything about what
I'm supposed to be doing please send me mail.  I got a couple of
addresses, all of which should be reachable:

RL1B@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
Y615RL1B@CMCCVB.Bitnet
Rob Locke FidoNode 1,129/15
or you can call my answering machine and me at (412) 621-6544

Also, feel free to contact any of the above if you need help with
a Rainbow.  I've seen most of the possible Rainbow problems in
this world.....

'Til next time.

--Rob Locke