Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!RITVAX.BITNET!AKK9180 From: AKK9180@RITVAX.BITNET ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For...") Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: Rainbows Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 89 05:20:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 Hey... I just got back from vacation and WOW... 20 new Rainbow conference mail messages (or there abouts)... all this arguing and I missed it! Any ways... somebody said something about a mouse I bel- ieve. Well, I have a $49 Tandy Microsoft compatible mouse on my Rainbow that works perfectly with MS Windows... so mice aren't the problem. I agree with the fact that the Rainbow is an excellent machine. It's no longer state of the art... but I think that there are still plenty of reasons NOT to trash it. I'm capable of doing anything and everything I have to on it! [Granted, that's not much lately...] The notion that it is a dead machine is definitely wrong. With Suitable Sulitions new board and Windows 2.1 (I only have an old beta version discussed a while ago in Rainbow Echomail) there is still hope for this great machine. From what I heard, Suitable Solutions had a Rainbow w/ the 286 board running Windows at DEXPO. Also... for those who are interested in some Rainbow history and why it's not the IBM PC of today... I was reading an interesting article in ComputerWorld magazine. DEC passed up LOTS of chances in the industry. One of them was VisiCalc. The author originally offered to write it for DEC on the Rainbow (or something to that effect) but DEC wasn't interested and he went to IBM. VisiCalc was a big reason that a lot of people got IBM's in the start... it could have been the 'bow... Personally, I'm doing just fine using my good as new (never had a single problem) Rainbow 100+ w/ 20 meg HD, 704K, graphics and color monitor. I don't think I could switch to an IBM. The 'bow has lots of advantages (many of which are outlined in an earlier IRUG issue). But that's just my opinion... Alok Kapoor AKK9180@RITVAX