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The Rainbow 100 is a
microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (PC ...
introduced by
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...
(DEC) in 1982. This desktop unit had a monitor similar to the
VT220 and a
dual-CPU box with both
Zilog Z80
The Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Zilog as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was conceived by Federico Faggin in late 1974 and developed by him and his 11 employees starting in early 1975. The first working samples wer ...
and
Intel 8088
The Intel 8088 ("''eighty-eighty-eight''", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers an ...
CPUs.
The Rainbow 100 was a triple-use machine: VT100 mode (industry standard terminal for interacting with DEC's own
VAX
VAX (an acronym for Virtual Address eXtension) is a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century. The V ...
),
8-bit
In computer architecture, 8-bit Integer (computer science), integers or other Data (computing), data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet (computing), octet). Also, 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) arc ...
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
mode (using the Z80), and
CP/M-86
CP/M-86 was a version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Research als ...
or
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few ope ...
mode using the 8088.
Models
The Rainbow came in three models, the 100A, 100B and 100+. The "A" model was the first released, followed later by the "B" model. The most noticeable differences between the two models were the firmware and slight hardware changes. The systems were referred to with model numbers ''PC-100A'' and ''PC-100B'' respectively; later were also designated ''PC-100B2''. The system included a user-changeable ROM chip in a special casing to support their keyboard layout and language of the boot screen. On the 100A, the ROMs only supported three languages.
The Rainbow did not have an ISA bus, so the typical RAM limit didn't apply, with both models supporting a maximum RAM of over .
PC-100A
The "A" model was the first produced by Digital. The distinguishing characteristic of the "A" model from an end-user perspective was that the earlier firmware did not support booting from a hard disk. Other distinguishing hardware features included the three 2764 (8 KB) ROM chips holding the system firmware
[Convert Rainbows from A to B (contained i]
zip file
). and the case fan/power supply combinations. In addition, the 100A was unable to move its hardware interrupt vectors to avoid the conflict with MS-DOS soft INT 21, etc. DOS had to take unusual actions to distinguish between the hard and soft vectors. The Rainbow 100A initially only supported of RAM total, but the limitation in the memory expansion slot was later worked around with a special adapter card, though the maximum was limited to
PC-100B
The "B" model followed the "A" model, and introduced a number of changes. The "B" model featured the ability to boot from a hard disk (referred to as the
Winchester
Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...
drive) via the boot menu due to updated firmware. The hardware changes included bigger firmware stored on two
and an improved case fan/power supply. The firmware allowed selection of the boot screen language and keyboard layout, eliminating the need to switch ROM. The "B" model also allowed remapping of hardware interrupts to be more compatible with MS-DOS. The B model also improved the memory expansion slot to allow a maximum configuration of
The "100+" model was actually a marketing designation signifying that the system shipped with a hard drive installed; the "100+" and "B" models were identical in all other respects. When a hard-disk option was installed on the Rainbow, the kit included the ''100+'' emblem for the computer's case.
Hardware
CPUs
The Rainbow contained two separate data buses controlled by the
Zilog Z80
The Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Zilog as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was conceived by Federico Faggin in late 1974 and developed by him and his 11 employees starting in early 1975. The first working samples wer ...
and the
Intel 8088
The Intel 8088 ("''eighty-eighty-eight''", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers an ...
respectively.
The buses exchanged information via a shared memory.
When not executing 8-bit code, the was used for floppy disk access.
The 8088 bus was used for control of all other subsystems, including graphics, hard disk access, and communications.
While it may have been theoretically possible to load Z80 binary code into the Rainbow to execute alongside 8088 code, this procedure has never been demonstrated.
The 8088 could be upgraded to the faster
NEC V20
The NEC V20 is a microprocessor that was designed and produced by NEC. It is both pin compatible and object code compatible with the Intel 8088, with an instruction set architecture (ISA) similar to that of the Intel 80188 with some extension ...
chip. This gave about 10-15% speed improvement, but required changes to the system's ROMs to fix two timing loops.
Memory
The 100A model shipped with memory on the motherboard, while the 100B had 128 KB memory on the motherboard.
Daughterboard
In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot (also referred to as a bus s ...
s were available from
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...
that could increase system memory with up to an additional for a total for the 100B or for the 100A. The difference in max memory was due to the difference in initial memory configuration.
Storage
Floppy disk drives
The floppy disk drives, known as the
RX50
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...
, accepted proprietary single-sided, quad-density
5¼-inch diskettes. Initial versions of the operating systems on the Rainbow did not allow for low-level formatting, requiring users to purchase RX50 media from
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...
. The high cost of media ($5 per disk) led to accusations of vendor "lock-in" against Digital. However, later versions of
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few ope ...
and
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
allowed formatting of diskettes. Formatting software for "normal" diskettes was also made available by third parties.
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. This earned the diskette drive the nickname "toaster". The unusual orientation confused many first-time users, who would complain that the machine would not read the disk. This was remedied later by placing a red arrow on the diskette slots and on the top of the diskettes to indicate which side of the diskette to be inserted into each diskette drive.
Hard disks
Digital Equipment Corporation produced a
Winchester disk
IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM and as such IBM's employees were responsible fo ...
controller capable of controlling hard disks compatible with the
ST-506
The ST-506 and ST-412 (sometimes written ST506 and ST412) were early hard disk drive products introduced by Seagate in 1980 and 1981 respectively, that later became construed as hard disk drive interfaces: the ST-506 disk interface and the ST-41 ...
interface. The controller, based on the Western Digital WD1010 chip, was limited to a single drive with up to and , limiting storage to a maximum of .
Third-party
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* Third-party source, a supplier company not owned by the buyer or seller
* Third-party beneficiary, a person who could sue on a contract, despite not being an active party
* Third-party insurance, such as a Ve ...
hard-disk controllers were also available, including a dual winchester support from CHS
Graphics
The base Rainbow system was capable of displaying text in 80×24- or 132×24-character format in monochrome only. The system could apply attributes to text including bolding, double-width, and double-height-double-width.
The graphics option was a user-installable module that added graphics and color display capabilities to the Rainbow system. The Graphic module was based on a
NEC 7220
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network solut ...
graphic display controller (GDC) and an 8×64 KB DRAM video memory.
Due to the design of the graphics system, the Rainbow was capable of controlling two monitors simultaneously, one displaying graphics and another displaying text.
Display
The base Rainbow system generates a
TTL
TTL may refer to:
Photography
* Through-the-lens metering, a camera feature
* Zenit TTL, an SLR film camera named for its TTL metering capability
Technology
* Time to live, a computer data lifespan-limiting mechanism
* Transistor–transistor lo ...
15 kHz
composite-video signal compatible with RS-170 (NTSC) in monochrome mode. With the inclusion of the graphics option, the Rainbow could also output
sync-on-green RGB
The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three addi ...
video signals at TTL levels. The Rainbow was most often coupled with the 12-inch VR201 monochrome monitor or the 13-inch VR241 color monitor, both produced by
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...
. The Rainbow was unique, in that the power for the monochrome monitor was supplied through the single video cable, eliminating the need for a separate power cable.
Keyboard
The Rainbow 100 and the other two microcomputers which DEC announced at the same time (
DECmate II
DECmate was the name of a series of PDP-8-compatible computers produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. All of the models used an Intersil 6100 (later known as the Harris 6100) or Harris 6120 (an improved In ...
and
Pro-350
The Professional 325 (PRO-325), Professional 350 (PRO-350), and Professional 380 (PRO-380) are PDP-11 compatible microcomputers introduced in 1982 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as high-end competitors to the IBM PC.
History
Like the c ...
) had two quirks that annoyed conservative users. The
LK201
The LK201 is a detachable computer keyboard introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts in 1982. It was first used by Digital's VT220 ANSI/ASCII terminal and was subsequently used by the Rainbow-100, DECmate-II, and Pro- ...
keyboard used a new layout that made some
Teletype Model 33
The Teletype Model 33 is an electromechanical teleprinter designed for light-duty office use. It is less rugged and cost less than earlier Teletype machines. The Teletype Corporation introduced the Model 33 as a commercial product in 1963 after ...
and
VT100
The VT100 is a video terminal, introduced in August 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was one of the first terminals to support ANSI escape codes for cursor control and other tasks, and added a number of extended codes for special f ...
users unhappy. However, the VT220 style of this keyboard can clearly be seen in the layout of the
enhanced 101-key keyboard adopted by IBM in 1985.
Third-party
Third-party upgrades were also available, including an
80286
The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the first 8086-based CPU with separate, non- multiplexed address and data buses and also the ...
(286) processor upgrade (Turbow-286), a 3.5-inch disk adapter kit (IDrive), and a battery-backed clock chip (ClikClok), all from
Suitable Solutions.
In 1984, the first computer support for Native American languages began with the Rainbow 100.
Rock Point Community School on the Navajo reservation in Arizona commissioned a ROM chip for the Navajo language, enabling the school to create bilingual computer programs.
Univation produced a number of products for the Rainbow as well. They offered add-in memory cards, hard disk controllers and LAN cards. The Univation disk interface was SASI/SCSI-1, but not software compatible with DEC's Winchester Disk option. It was based on a design by Xebec.
C.H.S. Created a dual-Winchester controller for the DEC Rainbow as well. It was compatible enough with the DEC's disk controller one could boot off it on the 100B/100+/190. Like DEC's offering, it was based on Western Digital's WD1010 chip. However, additional drivers were needed to access the second hard drive.
REC of Switzerland created a SCSI card for the Rainbow.
There was an "ACT Winchester Option" available in Australia for which drivers have recently surfaced.
Duncan MacDonald, Inc offered a 20MB Floppy tape cartridge using a rebranded CIPHER Data Products Model 525 floppy-tape cartridge tape drive. It used 3M DC600A tapes and could back up a 20MB RD31 in about 30 minutes. It included software to backup MS-DOS, CP/M and CCP/M partitions. List price in 1987 was $1200. In addition, Duncan MacDonald, Inc provided MFM disks in 20MB, 40MB and 67MB that used the same disks that DEC sold for much more, and provided a nice steel-cabinet with power supply so the Rainbow's power supply wouldn't be overtaxed by the power requirements of larger disks.
DEC Option Table
Here's the various options you could get for the Rainbow that were hardware. Country kits not yet listed.
Data compiled from a number of sources including
Software
The Rainbow runs the
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
operating system, which detects whether software is written for
8-bit
In computer architecture, 8-bit Integer (computer science), integers or other Data (computing), data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet (computing), octet). Also, 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) arc ...
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
and
CP/M-86
CP/M-86 was a version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Research als ...
and runs it on the appropriate processor.
DEC later released MS-DOS, but little DOS software was released on Rainbow media. While it provided the same MS-DOS functions that IBM's
PC DOS
PC or pc may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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* ''Port Charles'', an American daytime TV soap opera
* ...
did, it lacked the IBM PC's video and keyboard ROM BIOS interface which most MS-DOS software relied upon, limiting the commercial software that would run. Towards the end of its life, Rainbow users were able to run some IBM PC-compatible MS-DOS software using an emulation application called ''Code Blue'', though it emulated only the IBM PC's BIOS and some of the hardware, so programs that accessed the video cards directly would not work very well.
MS-DOS compatibility was added late in the design, so hardware interrupts and MS-DOS software interrupts overlapped. One DEC documentation pack for developers included a listing of Microsoft assembly code to handle this. The theory was that hardware interrupts would interrupt again but software interrupts would only happen once. The Rainbow 100B fixed this overlap in hardware by changes to the board design that allowed the OS to move the hardware interrupts. This means that the MS-DOS 3.10b version for the Rainbow can only run on the Rainbow 100B.
DEC itself ported
Microsoft
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Windows 1.0
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the Euro ...
to the Rainbow. The Suitable Solutions Turbow-286 board could run a modified version of
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990. It features a new graphical user interface (GUI) where applications are represented as clickable icons, as opposed to the list of file names seen in its predeces ...
.
Software bundled with DEC Rainbow floor model included:
*Microsoft
MBasic-86 BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ...
interpreter for Rainbow 100
*
WordStar
WordStar is a word processor application for microcomputers. It was published by MicroPro International and originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, and later written also for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes. Rob Barnaby was the sol ...
developed by Micro Pro for Rainbow 100
Documentation
*Rainbow 100 Technical Manual
*Getting Started with Rainbow 100
*MBasic-86 User's Guide Digital Equipment Corporation Distributed
*WordStar User's Guide for Rainbow 100
*License and Software Product Description
These documents come in booklets contained inside two hard case boxes, with the DEC logo.
Problems
The Rainbow used a distinct version of MS-DOS, so it was not completely software- or hardware-compatible with the IBM PC or PC DOS. The expectation was for programs to target the MS-DOS interface and not the underlying hardware. However, many significant commercial software products were writing directly to the hardware for a variety of reasons, including performance. After the
Compaq Portable
The Compaq Portable was an early portable computer which was one of the first IBM PC compatible systems. It was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq Portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. ...
and other clones, the market expectation was that all MS-DOS versions would be fully
IBM PC compatible
IBM PC compatible computers are similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards. Such computers were referred to as PC clones, IBM clones or IBM PC clones. ...
. Later, Microsoft would stop licensing distinctive OEM versions and sell standardized MS-DOS 5.0 at retail. While "Code Blue" did a good job at emulating the IBM BIOS, its inability to trap references to the video and other hardware limited what would run on the Rainbow. The FOSSIL
TSR allowed several terminal programs and editors to run on the IBM-PC, Rainbow, and other early 8088/8086 computers, but its limited adoption hampered its usefulness. Various other hacks allowed popular programs such as Turbo Pascal and Turbo C to run. Such patches circulated, but new releases made these difficult to keep up with, and over time these hacks dried up (the online archives have very little new after 1991 or 1992, although some of that may be due to the RABIT TSR, which solved the problem generically for all Borland products).
The DEC Rainbow 100 MS-DOS did support
FAT
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The term often refers spec ...
formatted floppies. They were FAT12 format on 80-track, single-sided, quad-density 5.25" drives. The first two tracks were reserved for the boot loader, but didn't contain an
MBR nor a
BPB (MS-DOS 2.x and 3.10 on the Rainbow used a static in-memory BPB instead). The boot sector (track 0, side 0, sector 1) was Z80 code beginning with DI
0xF3
. The 8088 bootstrap was loaded by the Z80. Track 1, side 0, sector 2 starts with the Media/FAT ID byte
0xFA
. Unformatted disks use
0xE5
instead. The file system starts on track 2, side 0, sector 1. There are 2 copies of the FAT and 96 entries in the root directory. In addition, there is a physical to logical track mapping to effect a 2:1 sector interleaving. The disks were formatted with the physical sectors in order numbered 1 to 10 on each track after the reserved tracks, but the logical sectors from 1 to 10 were stored in physical sectors 1, 6, 2, 7, 3, 8, 4, 9, 5, 10. This makes it hard to create Rainbow disk images since all existing tools assume there will be an MBR with a BPB, and required various hacks to make up for the lack of on-disk BPB.
The DEC Rainbow 100 had no general expansion bus. Instead, it had a number of expansion slots that could be used for a single purpose only: extra memory, graphics, rx-50 floppy controller. One slot was originally designed for a DMA enabled serial card, but hard disk controllers were used there instead because DEC bet wrong on which was more important. Univation produced an Ethernet card that could boot the Rainbow over the network for that slot. It stacked to allow both hard disk and ethernet in the same box, but it cost $750 which was prohibitively expensive so few Rainbows had ethernet. While the software incompatibilities were bad, the lack of expansion hardware flexibility was worse, and the inability to use ISA cards, despite their flaws at the time, played a significant role in the Rainbow fading from the scene.
Legacy
The
Multi Emulator Super System
Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) is an emulator for various consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core. It used to be a standalone program (which has since been discontinued), but is now integrated into MAME (which is actively dev ...
can run the Rainbow-specific Windows 1.0.
The Rainbow 100 plays a small but important role in the creation of the
FidoNet system. A computer club in
St. Louis
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was in the process of setting up a
BBS
BBS may refer to:
Ammunition
* BBs, BB gun metal bullets
* BBs, airsoft gun plastic pellets
Computing and gaming
* Bulletin board system, a computer server users dial into via dial-up or telnet; precursor to the Internet
* BIOS Boot Specificat ...
system using
CBBS on
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
when they learned that DEC would be giving the club a Rainbow 100 for free. The group planned on starting the BBS on this machine as soon as it arrived; but, when it did, they found that the Z80 did not have access to the serial ports. Casting about for a new BBS platform that ran on DOS, they learned of FidoBBS and arranged to have its developer port the serial drivers to the Rainbow platform. This ran up considerable phone bills sending emails and file transfers between
St. Louis
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and the developer in
San Francisco
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, and the developer produced FidoNet as a method of automating exchanges late at night when phone rates were lower.
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and Fantasy (genre), fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his :Xanth books, long-running novel series set in ...
wrote many of his books from the '80s on his DEC Rainbow.
The DEC Rainbow can be seen in the films ''
Ghostbusters
''Ghostbusters'' is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, thr ...
'', ''
Beverly Hills Cop
''Beverly Hills Cop'' is a 1984 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr., and starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop ...
'', and ''
Firestarter''.
Michael Paré watches a TV commercial for "The Rainbow" in ''
The Philadelphia Experiment''.
References
External links
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*
tp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/rainbow/ Uppsala University Update Computer Club Rainbow archivesVintage-Computer page on the DEC Rainbow 100Rainbow 100 Frequently Asked Questions
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