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

[MdntTrain]

On Mar 15, 8:43 pm, JCamCMKRNL <jcam90... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Question is: can you do anything with the
> > DOS Backup files, or do you need them unpacked as well?
>
> I'm not sure what is actually the form of the data on the floppies.
> These 32 disks are backups of two hard drive partitions in two backup
> sets. I can't remember if there is a backup saveset file on the disk,
> or if the backed up files appear in their original state. Frankly, I
> cant remember how the Rainbow DOS BACKUP command worked. If they are
> DOS Backup saveset files, then I would need them unpacked as well.
>
> Jeff

 If it was MSDOS, then it's just a standard DOS backup saveset.   Hope
they're all intact (doubtful).   So assuming you have a PC with a 3.5"
drive that you can boot into DOS 3.3 (for instance), your only real
challenge is just getting the 5.25" 720k floppies converted over to
3.5" 720k floppies.

  jS