On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote:
> >Warner Losh wrote: > > I have it on floppies, but no easy way to read those floppies onto a >> networked computer... >> >> Warner >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pon...@update.uu.se> >>> >> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:40:08AM +0100, Robert Jarratt wrote: >>>> >>> >>> >>>> I understand that DEC created a version of Windows for the Rainbow. Does >>>> anyone have this? >>>> >>>> >>> Have you seen: >>> >>> http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?28472-Rainbow-Windows >>> >>> maybe getting a hold of Jeff "PrintStar" Armstrong could be a start. >>> >>> Do you know anyone who has a older computer with a 5 1/4" HD floppy > drive? > > While a 64-bit Windows 7 system will not run PUTR by John Wilson from dbit, > even a 32-bit Windows XP system can do so. Since the Rainbow used an RX50 > floppy drive, PUTR is able to read RX50 type media and copy the image to a > hard disk file which can then be attached to an e-mail and sent anywhere. > Does PUTR run on FreeBSD? I can DD the floppies on FreeBSD w/o an issue because the RX-50's or the TEAC FD-55's that I have work just fine. I just don't know what the current state of play is wrt interchange formats actually is. I have the Rainbow in the basement, and could setup a kermit server and copy the files over one at a time. I haven't peeled back the covers beyond the disks that have the labels on them. Sadly, I have no windows machines in this house, and haven't for quite some time. Warner
