Re: DEC PRO 350 System Disks

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From	Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net>
Subject	Re: DEC PRO 350 System Disks
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On 2014-12-22, rr.wehe@gmail.com <rr.wehe@gmail.com> wrote:
> The machine required specially formatted 5.25 inch disks. You could buy 
> them from dec or format them  yourself on a rainbow-100, i think. It was 
> a dec manufactured ibm-pc compatible.

The Rainbow was *not* an ibm-pc compatible. It had both a Z80 and an
8088. Although it could run MS-DOS, it did not have an IBM-compatible
ROM BIOS and the hardware was significantly different.
-- 
roger ivie
rivie@ridgenet.net

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