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From: klr@hadron
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VAX 8xxxs and their PRO-380 kick-starters
Message-ID: <682@hadron>
Date: 4 Jan 88 13:52:00 GMT
References: <714@udiego>
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In article <58@ritcv.UUCP> iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes:
>In article <714@udiego.UUCP> stokes@udiego.UUCP (David M. Stokes) writes:
>   [Article severly trimmed.  This item is specifically about
>   the mini-flame on the Rainbow and my rebuttal.]
>>Now I'm paranoid of the hard disk in the 380 (if it;s as good as the
>>ones in the Rainbow, it's time to get worried) 
>   Ahem.  OK, David, I hate to complain about this point but it's late
>   and I am bored.  Anyway, being a Rainbow software developer (yes,
>   we still exist!), I can only let you flame the Rainbow's RX50
>   floppies (or RX50 floppies, no matter what machine they're in!).
>   The harddisks, however, are another story.  If there is one thing
>   DEC did right was QAing the disks they sell.  OK, so you pay 3x

I have to AGREE with Alan.  Whatever else DEC did to the Rainbow
user/owner, they did NOT stiff them on the hard drives.  I have a pair
of Rainbow 100Bs that are both fulltime, dedicated FidoNet nodes.  The
one with the DEC 10Mb has been running 24/7 for 3 years without a
problem.  It gets powered off every 6 month to get vacumed out.  The
other has a DEC 20mb and has been running 24/7 for about 2 years.  Never
a problem with the hard drives.

Both of these FidoNet BBS have a lot of DEC Rainbow software on them, so
feel free to drop by for a visit.  Maybe someday I can afford to put a
larger DEC drive on the systems.

 Kurt Reisler (703) 359-6100
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