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From: ntitley@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (nigel titley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Upgrading rainbow cheaply
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Date: 10 Nov 88 09:10:51 GMT
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From article <813@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, by haldane@warwick.UUCP (Steve Sykes):
> 
> Hello, here is the problem:  I have a Rainbow 100 with 64K and two floppies
> that only runs an early version of CP/M.  I want a Rainbow with 256K of
> memory with two floppies and a big hard disk that runs CP/M and Domesdos.
> I don't have a great deal of money.  And worst of all (!) I'm in the UK.
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap source of hard disk/controller
> and extra memory?  Or do I have to go to DEC?  Do DEC still sell the relevant
> bits over here?  Can I get the Suitable Solutions software that is so much
> talked about in this group through a distributor over here?

Whatever you do don't buy the RAM upgrade from DEC (this is a  chip set  for
populating the the expansion  RAM option).  When we  looked at  it DEC  were
charging about #700 for this. We went to an Hitachi  distributer and  bought
the chips direct. It cost us less than #70.

I don't know about disks etc, we DID buy those from DEC.

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