haldane@warwick.UUCP (Steve Sykes) (11/09/88)
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? So many questions... your help is much appreciated. Steve. UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!haldane | Have you hugged your JANET: haldane%emerald@uk.ac.warwick.daisy | radio today? ARPA: haldane%emerald@daisy.warwick.ac.uk |_____________________________ Steve Sykes, Computing Dept, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
ntitley@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (nigel titley) (11/10/88)
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. Email: NTitley@axion.bt.co.uk Snail: British Telecom Research labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK "Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted." (James Thurber)