Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!cci632!ritcv!iav1917 From: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: Anybody out there? Message-ID: <262@ritcv.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 88 03:53:51 GMT References: Reply-To: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) Distribution: na Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 73 Keywords: Rainbow, Suitable Solutions, RAMbow, MS-Windows Yup! ... Still hanging around waiting for some good news or problems to come circulating by my node... Anyone out there doing ANYTHING? This newsgroup has been too quiet for for too long. What can I do to wake these people up? Hmmm... Facts and ennuendo...??? Some rumors, maybe? Suitable Solutions is still looking into marketing an 80286/80287 processor board for the Rainbow. Anyone interested in REALLY speeding up your machine? WRITE TO THEM AND OFFER YOUR SUPPORT! They say they should be able to do the board for WAY less than $1000.00 or so. BTW. I don't have any connection with Suitable Solutions other than as a happy customer who recently purchased the Speed Cache caching program and the ClikClok clock chip from them. However, I have offered to help beta-test the board for them. Of course, I am at the end of a long list so the odds are probably pretty small! The board was demoed at the last DEXPO, so I have heard. It's supposed to be a speed demon! We'll have to wait and see! Contact Jerry Miller and Julia Starr at Suitable Solutions, Inc. 1700 Wyatt Drive, Suite 12, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, (408)-727-9090. If you want to help keep the Rainbow community alive, support it by purchasing QUALITY hardware and software from Suitable Solutions and other businesses still supporting the Rainbow. Hey, DEC won't any more! Are you going to throw out THOUSANDS of dollars of hardware/software investment and purchase a computer (ahem!) from somebody like IBM??? Just causing a commotion, that's me! BTW. Suitable Solutions is now selling the RAMbow (tm) I memory expansion board for the Rainbow. It allows ALL Rainbow models (100A and 100B/+) to run with a full 896K of memory! The board uses 9 1-megabit chips. Slick little board. Rumors? Well, from a "reliable source who asked not to be identified in case anyone is listening"... MS-Windows V1.03.04 exists and RUNS on the Rainbow. Rumor has it that it's been circulating around the country since December of last year or so. Of course, this is just a "rumor"! It's also rumored that all the utilities from MS-Windows for the IBM PC work JUST FINE under Rainbow Windows. Unfortunately, of course, this means that MS-Windows Paint is now the "best" graphics program for the Rainbow. Sob! There, that ought to wake up few sleeping Rainbow people out there! Oh, BTW, anyone have any good MS-Windows PD/ShareWare programs for the IBM PC??? I want to add to my collection so that when Windows rolls around.... Ahh, too many rumors... More later, if anyone is still interested... Alan All e-mails to: {allegra | seismo}!rochester!ritcv!iav1917 All flames to: !lostnode!hades!flmbckt ------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Alan I. Vymetalik | Standard Disclaimer: The above statements Prism Software Designs | and opinions belong to the author. Any 44 Arborwood Crescent | resemblence to statements found in actual Rochester, New York | reality is simply coincidence. And, as 14615-3807 | always, the above opinions have absolutely (716)-458-4932 (8-10pm) | nothing to do with the little, fat man (leave message) | putting $100 bills in my pocket. ------------------------+--------------------------------------------