18 May
2016
18 May
'16
8:38 a.m.
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to>
wrote:
Does PUTR run on FreeBSD? I can DD the floppies on FreeBSD w/o an issue
because the RX-50's or the TEAC FD-55's that I have work just fine. I just
don't
know what the current state of play is wrt interchange formats actually is.
I have
the Rainbow in the basement, and could setup a kermit server and copy the
files
over one at a time. I haven't peeled back the covers beyond the disks that
have the labels on them.
Sadly, I have no windows machines in this house, and haven't for quite some
time.
Warner
Warner Losh
wrote:
I have it on floppies, but no easy way to read those floppies onto a
networked computer...
Warner
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se
wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:40:08AM +0100, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>
>> I understand that DEC
created a version of Windows for the Rainbow. Does
>> anyone have this?
> > > Have you seen:
>
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?28472-Rainbow-Windows
> maybe getting a hold of Jeff
"PrintStar" Armstrong could be a start.
> Do you know anyone who has a older
computer with a 5 1/4" HD floppy
drive?
While a 64-bit Windows 7 system will not run PUTR by John Wilson from dbit,
even a 32-bit Windows XP system can do so. Since the Rainbow used an RX50
floppy drive, PUTR is able to read RX50 type media and copy the image to a
hard disk file which can then be attached to an e-mail and sent anywhere.