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Well, I *am* a sysop in the VAX Forum. Items for sale *are* allowed as long as they are one-time postings of personally-owned products, that is, as long as you are not a dealer. If you're a dealer, they're not permitted here in DECPC, either. 🙂 There is no dedicated…
Sorry, I guess I'm not following CompuServe as I should be. But, the last time I posted a for sale item in the VAX Forum, I believe I was told by a sysop that that was not allowed. Not nicely, either. Where would I put it?
Welcome to the area! I'm up in Chelmsford. The power supply on my 'Bow ate itself last week, and I found that my local DEC carry-in had moved from around the corner to way down in Waltham. 🙁 Still, it's a good deal. I just dropped the service on my…
Will, Just wanted to let you know there was another familiar "face" here . Glad to hear from you again! I'm still chugging along with my Rainbow, but I now own a 386 clone as well. The Rainbow is still great for most of my stuff but the wife needed…
Carl, Re: multiple languages, correct. For the record I'm not *really* talking about *compiled* menus. What I'm talking about is more aptly described as "preprocessed-to-binary" menus, as opposed to a scheme where the text must be interpreted by the menu processor from plain-text form. So we're not really talking about…
Bill, Just guessing offhand, I would doubt that there would be any advantages to compiled menus under MS-DOS. They would simply have to be kept in a larger .EXE file as opposed to a separate data file, and it's easy enough to write a program that uses pointers to read…
David, You're absolutely right to suggest "consider the market". I must not have been clear… what I would want to do is a generic MS-DOS version that would run on any MS-DOS machine (though I would certainly not be averse to any Rainbow-specific enhancements ;-}). I'm not sure what specs…
Willett, Thanks! I will most certainly not be the one who tests this thing to ensure that the upload works and that the program works OK, but I have forwarded your note so that BillL and Carl will be aware of it. -Bill
Yes, the menu system I've been developing is in Turbo Pas xXX make that Turbo Pascal. No, I'm not interested in porting anything that's not PD to the Rainbow. If we're talking commercial here, I think you have to consider the market. PD is different. "Just for fun" commands a…
#new upload
Message #21369
Bill – I forgot that CIS truncates uploaded file names to 6 characters without warning. When you post my first upload of this evening, could you change the name? I tried to name it "WUTIL32.ZIP". If the name has been truncated so the 32 is incomplete, please rename it "WUTL32.ZIP",…
See my new upload of Vinzenz Esser's WUTIL 3.2, which works great under Suitable Solutions' MS-DOS 3.10b and makes all this much easier. – Willett Kempton
Mike/Roy (Hey, if you can be confused, so can I…) The menu system I have *is* in C, but it's not written for MS-DOS and never really had that environment in mind. It's currently supported on VMS, and has had prior incarnations on UNIX and RSX-11M. David is working on…
Re: the Massachusetts Miracle, tell me about it… I live here too! ;-} -Bill
I'm not entirely sure what you guys are discussing (a menu system of some sort that you, Bill, have source code for in a language other than C), but count me as an "anyone else" for now, at least. I think it was the direct screen writes that got me.…
We are alive and well and living in Boston, where the Massachusetts Miracle has faded into a leading edge recession. Other than being in DEC's backyard when it posts its first quarterly loss in history, everything is great. The RB is still chugging along although the LA-50 seems to be…
Bob, I would suggest you post this in the VAX Forum as well. By the way, I guess I should make note of the fact that there is no longer any such thing as EasyPlex… it's CompuServe Mail now! 🙂 -Bill
#Laser printer for sale.
Message #21361
For sale: DEC LN03R ScriptPrinter. This is a full-blown DEC Postscript Laser Printer. Less than a year old, fewer than 1000 copies printed. It's got lots of built-in fonts, compatible with any software that provides Postscript output. RS-232 interface. It's presently being used with my IBM XT. Cables and manuals…
Y'know… it occurs to me, after our earlier messages on this subject and reading your reply… I do have *some* interest in seeing my menu program ported to MS-DOS. There are a couple of reasons: It would give me a clue as to how hard most of the rest of…
Thnx, Steve… I _do_ remember coming across an MS-DOS version, but could never get the HIRES or LA50 device drivers to work with it, and since GSX on the 'Bow looked like a dead-end, I never played with it much. By then I was too much into the "direct" approach…
You had to ask, didn't you… 😉 Well, here goes, 1) Somewhere along the line, I picked up the idea that most menu packages did direct screen writes for speed, and that that would prevent them from running in the 'Bow enviroment. From your comments, I gather I'm mistaken. 2)…
Bob, Just out of curiosity have you opened your machine up? If not, and you're not afraid to do it , you might want to open it up and check out all of your cable connections. I had a similar problem once in the past and it was due to…
I once read in some obscure magazine article there is a problem with ST-225 drives where firmly tightened screws holding the logic pc board will cause some mechanical alignment problem in the HDA to which it is mounted. Specifically, slightly loosening the screw on the side of the board closest…
Bob, Which version of DOS are you running? Jerry Miller discovered a problem with DEC's 2.11 (I believe) that resulted in progressive corruption of the hard disk. The details were published in Rainbow News, together with software to diagnose and (if I remember correctly) fix the problem. But I truly…
Bob, Almost certainly, the disk in question is Seagate's ST225. (I say this not out of any knowledge of what Suitable was shipping, but just based on the fact that by far the lion's share of 20Mb disks sold into the pc-level market are ST225s.) Some people say the ST225s…
#100+ hard disk
Message #21350
I have a Rainbow 100+ with what might be a flakey hard disk. It appears to have been gradually "going south" and now won't even boot reliably. I guess I can get it to boot once. Then it hangs when I try to run Wordperfect. A subsequent attempt to boot…
Try Norton's DT utility.
I agree . . . I have Tom Jennings' SCAVENGE which was apparently written for generic MS-DOS v.2 or 3, and Suitable Solutions' HDSCAN which was distributed with a package of "fixes" for Rainbow DOS 2.11. Now that I'm running v.3.10b, one of my hard disk blocks seems to be…
P.S. Al, I moved your message to our "general" section. The "vendor support" section is primarily intended for third-party vendors of products for DEC's PCs.
Al, The software shouldn't matter at all. Whether or not the I-drive or the Turbow board will matter largely varies from one office to another. Almost certainly if the problem resides within one of those components they will not be able to fix it. What is the problem you're experiencing?…
Yes.
Steve, The system hangs you've experienced while typing in WfW are now a known problem under RB Windows. You'll find the situation much improved if you do your extended stretches of typing in draft mode rather than layout mode. Also try to use shift+home/delete to wipe out a line of…
#Sick Rainbow
Message #21337
What is DEC's policy on servicing Rainbows with 3rd party hardware/software? have one that has an I drive, a turbow board and runs under Code Blue. Thanks, and best regards. Al Henderson
#Hard Disk Utilities
Message #21336
IS there a utility out there (commercial or PD) that will fix bad sectors on a R'bow hard disk? Everything I've found seems specific for PC_DOS…Steve
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Messaage Database
Message #21335
Michael, one of the simplest approaches would be to use a text finder. Don't know if there are any on this forum (DECPC), but over in one or another of the IBM forums are the utilities FIND and MAXFIND (use the "File Finder") that will report back on where (file…
#Windows/WFW
Message #21334
Len, I've run into one problem with R'bow Windows and Word for Windows: sometimes my machine hangs when I'm entering text. No problems with mouse control of functions. Any thoughts on this?…Steve
LA50
Message #21333
Carl, I've uploaded LA50.EXE and LA50.INF that can be used to set/reset am LA50 printer. Not as sophisticated as some printer utilities, but short and flexible. I have a Panasonic KX-P1124 (with serial adapter board, running at 9600 baud) in Epson LQ2500 emulation mode on the printer port of my…
GSX
Message #21332
Dennette, t'aint quite true that GSX was a CP/M only product. An outfit called "Machine Algorithms" in Boulder (CO) developed a DOS version back in 1984 for use in its rather nice R'bow specific Tektronix emulator known as GTM-10; I still use this occasionally at home to get graphics output…
WUTIL
Message #21331
Roy, see my message 21328 re WUTIL…Steve
WUTIL
Message #21330
Steve, see my message 21328 re WUTIL…Steve
WUTIL
Message #21329
Willett, see my message 21328 re WUTIL…Steve
WUTIL v3.12/DOS v3.10
Message #21328
Re the question of WUTIL/MS-DOS compatibility: I have just used WUTIL to format a Seagate ST251-1 (40 MB capacity, 28 ms access) in my R'bow with two DOS partitions of 8 and 32 MB. The latter is the biggest partition possible, and you obviously could specify several smaller ones though…
Thanks, I'll move over. Bill
Bill, Nice try, but wrong Forum. This Forum supports DEC's PCs. DEC's newer-generation PC networking products (as opposed to the PCs themselves) are supported in our "sister" forum: GO VAXFORUM. There's a message section there dedicated to PC Integration which would be the appropriate place to ask. -Bill
#DEPCA in PC
Message #21324
I guess this communications forum is the correct place. I am trying to use the DEPCA Rev E board in a PC to connect to our VAX via PCSA. I also want to use the same board to connect to our Novell file server. I have been successful in getting…
Ralph, I'm about 80% certain that you can plug any interface-compatible drive in there and have it work. I think the European DECstation 200 series are made by Olivetti. In the US, they are made by Tandy, and are completely different machines. But in both cases they are essentially off-the-shelf…
#hard disk upgrade
Message #21322
I have a DECStation 200 which came equipped with a Conner CP3022 20Mb hard drive. I would like to upgrade it to a 40Mb drive, but the DEC prices here in France are outrageous. Does anyone know if I can just pop a Conner CP3044 into the DECstation 200, or…
For SALE PDP 1123
Message #21321
FOR SALE PDP 1123 COMPUTER AND SEVERAL COMPONETS CALL Radiology Associates C.M. Jordan M.D. 601-234-7636 Tell him Danny gave you Telephone number This Whole system is CHEAP ! Includes Business software, RT11 OS ,2 disk packs 1 Vt 100 monitor,DEC 50 printer , 2RLO 2 20 meg drives
Circulation management as in publications (newspapers etc.) as distinguished from library circulation management?
DEC LJ252 color for sale
Message #21318
I have a LJ252 Color Companion printer for sale. It is just over 1 yr old and is in excellent condition. Original packaging and manual. Please Email.
Circulation management.
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