Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!THOMPSON@USC-ECLC.ARPA 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 Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16878 Posted: Thu Feb 23 10:43:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 14:41:59 EST Lines: 20 From: mark thompsonIf 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... -------