rl1b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Robert A. Locke") (03/11/88)
I just wanted to check to see if anybody was out there or if maybe
our mailer was munging things.
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USAiav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) (03/14/88)
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
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