[Info-vax] Anyone have a working DEC Rainbow PC200B?

Roger Ivie rivie at ridgenet.net
Sun Mar 15 20:08:43 EDT 2009


On 2009-03-15, glenn everhart <everhart at gce.com> wrote:
> oho. This is the rx50 driver set I recalled. Wonder if "Idrive" stood 
> for "IBM drive", might just be ibm at 1.2mb format? (Or even the old 360k
> format?)

IIRC, it showed up in the system as drive I: (hence Idrive = drive I:). 
Don't know why they picked I:, though. I was under the impression that
a fully-loaded Rainbow could have drives A: through H: populated (A:
through C: being floppies, D: through H: being hard drive partitions).
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roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net



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