I remember those. That was my last year at U of L and they announced that the next year all engineering students would be required to buy a rainbow. The cost was to be spread over 4 years of tuition. Fortunately, the rainbow proved itself an instant flop and U of L dropped that plan.
If memory serves, they did run MSDOS, but they didn't have a pc compatible BIOS so that while they gave the impression that they were PC compatible, in reality they wouldn't run anything that required BIOS calls (which was 99% of the software out there). We used a lot of HP 150 touch screens, and they were the same way. Also, you had to buy pre-formatted floppies from DEC - you couldn't format your own. At least until someone leaked the formatting utilities. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kat Collins Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:18 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 Anyone remember the Rainbow? It was DEC's attempt at a Personal computer. Launched in early '83, if I remember... ran its own proprietary DEC-OS and was not compatible with any IBM-DOS apps. It died a year or two later, but the marketing stickers held up for about 10 years!! I had one stuck to my daughter's mirror and damned if I could get it off!! And the DECwriter and the Gold key..... ahhhh - sweet memories!! On 1/11/06, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah but people using DEC and attending DECUS were smarter than the > average bear.... To this day the people I meet who grew up on DEC are > more well rounded and knowledgeable in the field than the norm. > > The good ol days... Anyone remember Mike Mayfield and the RSTS/E > Monitor Internals books he wrote? Only place to get the real scoop on > the internals so you could really wreak havoc. I think he also wrote > the original Trek too so if your system was still up after poking > around in the internals you could play a video game on your DecWriter or VT52. > > I got my first official corporate support position supporting OS/2 and > Win31 on Token Ring back in the mid 90's because I knew DEC. The 8 or > so people in the panel interview started asking me questions about the > equipment the job was for (OS/2 Win31 tcp/ip Token Ring) and I > couldn't answer any of the questions so they saw DEC on my resume and > started asking DEC questions and a couple of hours later we were all > laughing and I had my choice of the three open positions they had even though I knew nothing about any of them. > :) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John > McGlinchey > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:13 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 > > My experience is just the opposite. I attended DECUS (The other DEC, > Digital Equipment Computer Users Society Symposia) a few times back in > the 90's and the casinos complained that the attendees were not losing enough money. > This was attributed to 1) most of the attendees knew the odds were > against them so they kept their money in their pockets where it > belonged and 2) the ones that did play were pretty good at it and were winning too much. > > I'll not be attending but I'm sending someone that works for me instead. > Have a good conference. > > John McGlinchey > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, > > Michael M. > > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:38 PM > > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 > > > > I think you are going to find the same at Green Valley - > > http://www.greenvalleyranchresort.com/gaming/index.html > > > > Leave your car and house titles at home! > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > -- Kat Collins - "The Email of the species is more powerful than the Mail!" "The human voice is the organ of the soul." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
