Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.mchsi.com!news.mchsi.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:55:48 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro From: Roger Ivie Subject: Re: DEC PRO 350 System Disks References: <4723f059$0$16458$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (NetBSD) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:55:49 -0600 Lines: 11 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.30.94.68 X-Trace: sv3-Vh6GqeAYEV+PFPMd1V5+t3Kr4V3rMCpG6mxKPRo8WIeWxvBYbzVfQ7kZXN9tQhDFWQT1B7GXQGtUpaw!QASR1iDFcmxiphiEAaO8m7uPs8IWMlhQDOYECweu9tmIoy4TGAs127qkBebcJ0/O17Y6snZuxnc= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1418 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.dec.micro:8 On 2014-12-22, 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