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> not the damn Rainbow Hey I had a Rainbow! It was pretty amazing IF it had it's full potential it would have been the best computer until the Amiga came out.
by baldfat 13y ago
> not the damn Rainbow
Hey I had a Rainbow! It was pretty amazing IF it had it's full potential it would have been the best computer until the Amiga came out.
Rainbow:
CPUs - Z80 (8 Bit) and a Intel 8080
OS - CP/M and MS-DOS
Could be upgraded to 286 later.
Would have been perfect BUT they didn't get things setup correctly and I was really stuck in Z80 CP/M land.
- protomyth 13y agoOne man's innovation is another man's Frankenstein Monster. It was actually an 8088 not an 8080. Anyone who had to deal with people using those damn Rainbow floppy disk drives has my eternal sympathy. I really, really want to know what they were thinking on both the format and how you inserted those disks.
- Someone 13y agoHad to look up what that was about. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100#Floppy_disk_drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100#Floppy_disk_drives, they could do away with one drive motor, with only a 'minor' disadvantage: "Of note was the single motor used to drive both disk drives via a common spindle, which were arranged one on top of the other. That meant that one disk went underneath the first but inserted upside-down."