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From: THOMPSON@USC-ECLC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Rainbow 100
Message-ID: <16878@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 10:43:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 10:43:00 1984
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From:  mark thompson 

If you decide to use the rainbow as something other than a terminal,
i think you will find it a reasonable machine (when compared to other
CP/M or DOS machines). With CP/M, it runs both -80 and -86 programs
without the user having to think about which they are running. The
floppies hold a reasonable amount of data. 

Complaints:

Far too noisy, esp. the disk drives. In contrast the IBM (yuck) PC
is whisper silent.

Keyboard is very nice, except for the keys that programmers use all
of the time for editing (ESC, BS, LF). I have had to learn to type
CTL-[, CTL-H, CTL-J.

All in all, much more pleasant than the PRO in my office, but that is
another flame...
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