Talk:Rainbow 100

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Not only does the Rainbow emulate the VT220, but also the VT52, if I remember correctly. On startup, youd be presented with a menu to boot from drives A, B, C, D, or E, or go to the terminal mode, or to the self-diagnostic test. Using F3 to enter SETUP you could change the congiguration of the emulated terminal, plus some other things like keyclick, baud rate of the serial port etc etc.

Thô MS-DOS on the IBM PCs only adressed 640K of memory even if more was available, the same DOS on the Rainbow (or was it an adapted version, not sure. I use 2.11 I think) could adress up to the 896K if it was all available.

[edit] Unpacking problem?

ISTR reading that another annoyance about the Rainbow was that it was delivered in a six foot cube box essentially inside another six foot cube box; the outer box had to be lifted clear to get to the computer - it thus meant that it had to be unpacked in a room with at least a 12 feet high ceiling. Can anyone confirm that?

Apepper 21:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)