Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
Yea, my setup is similar, though it goes to a USB serial on my Intel server since that was near by and handy. 9600 is totally reliable, 19200 is too flakey to use, though I'd like more speed. Then again, 310cps is about all I can do with XMODEM and 250cps with KERMIT in LCTERM. Warner On Thu,

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread william degnan via cctalk
I treat the few working SSQD drives I have like they're gold. The visual 1050 uses them too.

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread william degnan via cctalk
OK.. I will use LCTERM on my Rainbow to Kermit to my Raspberry Pi. b On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 4 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > >> The old fashioned way: copy the files on the rainbow to the hard >> drive, kermit

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 4 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: >> >> The old fashioned way: copy the files on the rainbow to the hard >> drive, kermit to my unix box. >> I have a kryoflux, but it's being nothing but

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 4 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: The old fashioned way: copy the files on the rainbow to the hard drive, kermit to my unix box. I have a kryoflux, but it's being nothing but frustrating to me since I don't know if I have a known good floppy it supports or not. I mean I have two

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
The old fashioned way: copy the files on the rainbow to the hard drive, kermit to my unix box. I have a kryoflux, but it's being nothing but frustrating to me since I don't know if I have a known good floppy it supports or not. I mean I have two 5.25 1.2M floppy drives, just have no way of

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-04 Thread william degnan via cctalk
Warner, How are you uploading and downloading disks from the Rainbow...via the Rainbow or by reading the disks using an image program? I grabbed a copy of Windows. I may have a spare graphics card. Bill On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2017-05-01 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Huw Davies > wrote: >> >>> On 19 Aug 2016, at 02:31, shad wrote: >>> >>> It seems that copies of this software are really difficult

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2016-08-20 Thread KnoppixLiveKiller
On 08/20/2016 02:40 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Huw Davies wrote: On 19 Aug 2016, at 02:31, shad wrote: It seems that copies of this software are really difficult to find, but a complete copy was

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2016-08-20 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Huw Davies wrote: > >> On 19 Aug 2016, at 02:31, shad wrote: >> >> It seems that copies of this software are really difficult to find, but a >> complete copy >> was available on the latrobe ftp DEC

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2016-08-19 Thread Huw Davies
> On 19 Aug 2016, at 02:31, shad wrote: > > It seems that copies of this software are really difficult to find, but a > complete copy > was available on the latrobe ftp DEC Rainbow archive... which disappeared > with all valuable data... > Anybody has a copy of the

Re: Windows 1.0 For DEC Rainbow (mirror of Latrobe ftp anybody ?)

2016-08-18 Thread shadoooo
Hello, since the messages in May about the MS Windows 1.0 version for DEC Rainbow, I did some research to see if a version is effectively available. It seems that copies of this software are really difficult to find, but a complete copy was available on the latrobe ftp DEC Rainbow archive...