Date   : Fri, 03 May 1991 16:02:34 GMT
From   : stan!imp@uunet.uu.net (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Link between DEC Rainbow and '386

In article <796@cadlab.sublink.ORG> albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (albani) writes:
>>But the problem is the disk format: incompatible with my other machine.
In article <rrezaian.1225@austral.UUCP> rrezaian@austral.UUCP (Russell
Rezaian) writes:
>Is even the MS-Dos format incompatible?

As some other people have pointed out, the Rainbow can read single
sided PC disks (180K, oh boy.  Stop don't tease me like that).  It can
also write to freshly formatted (on the PC) singled sided disks with
some degree of reliability (eg, don't delete it off the Rainbow until
it is on the PC), but since you want to go the other way, that is
cool.

There is something called I-Drive that will allow you to connect a
real PC disk (5.25 or 3.5, no HD) to the Rainbow.  It costs $$$$.
There is also a freely available 3.5" driver for the Rainbow
available, but you need to get your own 3.5" floppy and install it
yourself.  Look at the announcement that I'll be posting to
comp.sys.dec.micro tomorrow for details.

Warner
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