I have the need to read a whole pile of DEC Rainbow 100 floppies. I
can do it on the DEC Rainbow, but that's a huge pita since it isn't
networked. I'd like to either connect a RX-50 drive to my machine, or
use a 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that I can scrounge easily enough to do
the deed.
80 trac
> Has anybody done this before? Any pointers?
I'm very familiar with the RX50 on the Rainbow. I wrote the "copy protected
disk copier" for it in that bygone era. AR!!
The Rainbow ran several operating systems, CPM, CPM/86, MSDOS 2, and MSDOS 3.
The Rainbow had both a z80 cpu and an 8088
Mark Hittinger wrote:
>
> MSDOS world only and not CPM. I'd bet there are utilities on simtel20 that
> would read a CPM format floppy in 40 track format. I formatted them on the
A quick search returned 10 matches with this one looking like what you
want.
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/44392.sht
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Hittinger writes:
: I'd actually recommend trying to use kermit to get the data out via the
: serial port first :-) There is a rainbow kermit out there.
Not an option. I have about 100 floppies to transfer. I know I could
set this up, but 9600 baud is just t
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Housley writes:
: Mark Hittinger wrote:
: >
: > MSDOS world only and not CPM. I'd bet there are utilities on simtel20 that
: > would read a CPM format floppy in 40 track format. I formatted them on the
:
: A quick search returned 10 matches with this one lo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writ
es:
>I do have the options of connection the hardware up to the floppy
>controller in my desktop too :-). I have both the RX-50 drives, as
>well as a pair of TEAC FD55 drives (that do the same data rate as the
>RX-50's, with the same heads, but wi
[[ Lots of details on how to do this deed, or at least the format
of the Rainbow disk, follow. Hit 'n' or 'd' if you don't care ]]
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian Dowse writes:
: The fdcontrol program allows most of the paramaters to be set to
: match the disks, but unfortunately it cannot
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writ
es:
>
>That's OK. The Rainbow disks have sectors numbered 1 through 10, for
>both CP/M disks and MS-DOS disks. This makes things easier to cope
>with.
Great, then no driver changes are required. I've just tried it; I
found a normal PC 5.25" drive
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I have the need to read a whole pile of DEC Rainbow 100 floppies. I
> can do it on the DEC Rainbow, but that's a huge pita since it isn't
> networked. I'd like to either connect a RX-50 drive to my machine, or
> use a 1.2M 5.25" floppy drive that I can scrounge easily eno
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