15 Feb
2002
15 Feb
'02
6:37 a.m.
Um, the disk drives and floppy controlelrs used in the 100A, 100B and 100+
are identical.
the 100A could have less ram than the 100B or 100+
the B or + could go to 768K Ram, I THINK that the A was limited to 640 or 690K
The 100A could read IBM SSDD format disks, as could the 100B and 100+
I have a 100+ here at home, (used to be a 100B) with the HD controller,
Seagate ST225 HD, ClikClock RTC and a 3.5" 720K floppy, The last 2 parts
are aftermarket.
I'd LOVE to find the VERY RARE SCSI HDD board for this beastie, it was
manufactured in Europe, and allowed SCSI HDD's to be used on the
rainbow... another cool board i'd love to have is the Turbow286, a 12 MHZ
80286 upgrade board for the rainbow.... :)
At 08:05 AM 2/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
The 100A could read only disks that used its own
proprietary format. The
100+ could read, but not write to, PC-format disks. The 100B was a
lower-priced version of the 100+. I'm sure there are other differences, but
these are the key ones.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
Editor/Publisher
Classic Tech, the Vintage Computing Resource
www.classictechpub.com
603-893-2379
----- Original Message -----
From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu(a)ecubics.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: DEC Rainbows ...
> Hi,
>
> What is the difference between the 100A, 100B, and 100+ Rainbows ?
>
> Any good links on the internet about ?
>
> cheers & thanks