13 Jul
2013
13 Jul
'13
3:27 p.m.
Heres the unboxing photos, the original owner used it for one project
and then boxed it up and put it away, he even went as far as removing
the winchester hard drive and put it in its original box. I had to
install the drive, give it a good firm wack because of stiction and
reinit the drive, but its fully functional, The only thing I can
think of using it for right now is a VT100 terminal to my Mac like I was
doing with the Apple IIc
Pictures of the rainbow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67970316 at N08/sets/72157634594990927/
13 Jul
13 Jul
5:51 p.m.
May I say "i'm drooling on that //e behind the rainbow"? :o)
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Enviado do meu Motorola PT550
Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Landon" <slandon110 at gmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:27 PM
Subject: Rainbow 100
Heres the unboxing photos, the original owner used it
for one project
and then boxed it up and put it away, he even went as far as removing
the winchester hard drive and put it in its original box. I had to
install the drive, give it a good firm wack because of stiction and
reinit the drive, but its fully functional, The only thing I can
think of using it for right now is a VT100 terminal to my Mac like I was
doing with the Apple IIc
Pictures of the rainbow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67970316 at N08/sets/72157634594990927/
8:03 p.m.
Very nice. If I had the room a Rainbow would be on my collection hit list.
They were sold here in New Zealand.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Souza <
alexandre.tabajara at gmail.com> wrote:
May I say "i'm drooling on that //e behind the rainbow"? :o)
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Enviado do meu Motorola PT550
Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Landon" <slandon110 at
gmail.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:27 PM
Subject: Rainbow 100
Heres the unboxing photos, the original owner used it for one project
and then boxed it up and put it away, he even
went as far as removing the
winchester hard drive and put it in its original box. I had to install the
drive, give it a good firm wack because of stiction and reinit the drive,
but its fully functional, The only thing I can think of using it for
right now is a VT100 terminal to my Mac like I was doing with the Apple IIc
Pictures of the rainbow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/**67970316 at
N08/sets/**72157634594990927/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/67970316 at
N08/sets/72157634594990927/>
14 Jul
14 Jul
11:53 a.m.
Heres the unboxing photos, the original owner used it for one project
and then boxed it up and put it away, he even went as far as removing
the winchester hard drive and put it in its original box. I had to
Odd...
At lest these DEC desktop machiens are easy to dismantle into modules.
The downside is that they are very hard to repair, getting a test probe
onto the right point can be 'interesting'. I remember having to sort out
a bus arbitration problem in my 'Bow... I had the mainboard on the hench,
the PSU upside-down alongside it. the fan bracke sitting next to that (to
provide the mains on/off switching, etc).
Do you have any other expansion options other than the hard disk? The
graphics card is quite nice (I always fount it curious that a machine
called a 'Rainbow' was actuall a monocrome machine in the base
configuration). An add-on RAM card is nice to have too, there are at
least 2 versions. One gives 192K (and has 3 soldered-in banks of RAM,
64K*1 chips), the other has socekted RAM and can have either 64K or 256K
banks (I think just about any mix is possible).
install the drive, give it a good firm wack because
of stiction and
reinit the drive, but its fully functional, The only thing I can
think of using it for right now is a VT100 terminal to my Mac like I was
doing with the Apple IIc
As others have said, there's both a Z80 and an 8088 in there. It will run
a non-PC-compativle MS-DOS and an odd CP/M that will run both CP/M 80 and
CP/M 86 programs. It's not a bad CP/M box, actually.
-tony
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