Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow

Jerome H. Fine jhfinedp3k at compsys.to
Wed May 18 06:04:37 CDT 2016


 >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.

Please ask if you need more help.

Jerome Fine


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