atc@waikato.ac.nz (05/14/91)
I may be about to get hold of a Dec Rainbow, and am wondering how you go about adding a harddisk drive to such a beast. I have a spare 5 1/4" Full height original IBM 20 meg drive can I fit this? Also which version of msdos can you run on them. Any hope of graphics? Thanx for any help -- Andrew Chambers Computer Services University of Waikato New Zealand ATC@WAIKATO.AC.NZ
brantley@cerritos.edu (05/19/91)
In article <1991May14.212054.3693@waikato.ac.nz>, atc@waikato.ac.nz writes: > I may be about to get hold of a Dec Rainbow, and am wondering how > you go about adding a harddisk drive to such a beast. > I have a spare 5 1/4" Full height original IBM 20 meg drive > can I fit this? > Also which version of msdos can you run on them. > Any hope of graphics? > > Thanx for any help > > -- > Andrew Chambers > Computer Services > University of Waikato > New Zealand > > ATC@WAIKATO.AC.NZ -- The Rainbow takes both full-height and half-height ST-506 type drives. Your biggest problem is finding a hard disk conroller card for the beast. I have two Rainbow 100A's at home, one has a 5-meg hard disk. I use the one with the hard disk as a terminal to dial into the VAXes at work. The Rainbow had MS-DOS 2.11 from DEC and I believe a MS-DOS 3.0 from a third party. The Rainbow had a graphics board. And for it's time, circa 1982-83 it was the very best graphics for a PC. There was a 14 inch color monitor sold by DEC which was real nice. If your machine has the graphics card and a color monitor, get a copy of SCRAM. It is a game used by DEC as a color graphics demo and deals with nuclear reactors on the moon. Douglas Brantley, Cerritos College, 11110 E. Alondra Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650 Voice: 213-860-2451 ext 219, InterNet: BRANTLEY@CERRITOS.EDU