On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> I accessed the FTP site and downloaded some files from the toolkit. It's been
> a while since I used Teledisk so it should be fun. Is Teledisk the best app for
> transferring the files. I believe I also have 22disk, RainDos, and Uniform.
Of those listed, I believe that TeleDisk may be your only choice.
Uniform and 22Disk take dead aim at CP/M format disks - with a couple
minor exceptions - and RainDos sticks pretty much to the Rainbow.
TeleDisk is rather more flexible.
- don
> Sifting thru the various programs I was very impressed by the possible
> capabilities of the 350. It seems quite a bit more powerful than the Rainbow.
>
> I hope it looks for floppies before the passworded HD. They mention that you
> can make a new startdsk and link it to the old one bypassing the password.
> The default password is SYSTEM according to a file on the FTP site but
> doesn't give a substitute for username.
>
> Lawrence
>
>
>
> >
> > --- Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net> wrote:
> > > > RD51? RD52?
> > > >
> > > RD52. Quantum 540 full-ht.
> >
> > Nice. Probably the best thing for it.
> >
> > > > Those daughter cards can be upgraded from 128K to 512K by replacing the 4164
> > > > DRAMs with 41256s and adding W1 and W2. Not sure if you pull both cards and
> > > > install one upgrade or if you can install two 512K cards; haven't tried it
> > > > yet.
> > >
> > > What's W1 and W2 ?
> >
> > Two marked jumper positions on the daughtercard.
> >
> > > There's no KBds. but IIRC from postings here it can use the lk201's that
> > > I have with my Rainbows.
> >
> > Absolutely.
> >
> > > I also have VR201 and VR241 monitors which I believe will work.
> >
> > Yep - the VR201 will work on any Pro350 configuration. Not sure if
> > the VR241 will work if you don't have the color option. Again, I don't
> > have the handle numbers here, but if you have two cards in the CTI cage
> > with a ribbon cable connecting the two, but attached to nothing else,
> > you probably have the color option. In fact, with 4 cards total, I'd
> > suspect you have the color video board set, an RX50 controller and an
> > MFM drive controller.
> >
> > > I have some blank 5 1/4 DEC floppies and from discussions
> > > here I can use a 'bow to format more for them.
> >
> > Yes. You can also use a 5.25" drive in a PC (Teac FD55GFR is one
> > of the best to have for this) and format *double density* blanks
> > for it (the coercitivity of the HD media is different than the DD
> > media - the RX50 uses DD media, formatted single-sided, 80 tracks,
> > rather than double-sided, 40 tracks like for a PC, but it's the same
> > media).
> >
> > -ethan
> >
> >
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Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 23:31:16 BST