[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[DaveG]

On Apr 7, 12:58 pm, yyyc186 <yyyc... at hughes.net> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 10:23 am, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
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> > You were obviously using a different FORMAT program, or you didn't read
> > the documentation. I had an early Rainbow and FORMAT /I worked fine for
> > me.
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> It was the 350, not the 'bow.  350 owners had to buy a 'bow to format
> floppies.  My bad.

When the Rainbow was first introduced I believe it did not come with a
format program, thus you needed to buy expensive pre-formatted
floppies from DEC.  This was changed later in its life.  I don't
recall when.