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I have a DEC Letterwriter 100 in unknown shape (but visually clean and likely working) with a spare ribbon (no idea if it's died out or not). The unit has been in storage for the last 5 years I've had it, and was in storage for the 20-30 prior. I'm in the Denver area, and would prefer a local...

I'm looking for any and all information I can find about DEC Rainbow Ethernet cards. So far all I've been able to find is DECnet Rainbow 1.0 and I've not plumbed its depths yet. I know DEC made one, and I know Univation made one, but I've not really found drivers for each (though the latter...

Greetings.... In going through some old Rainbow documentation I acquired a while ago with an old Rainbow (that looks to be a prototype, btw, but I digress) I found a number of Washington Area Rainbow Users Group newsletters (most of Volume 2 and all of Volume 3). A quick google search finds...

I recently bought a Univation Internal Hard Disk System HBA for the DEC Rainbow-100 on ebay. It came with docs (yea!), but they appear to be the wrong docs. The docs I have (and plan on uploading to bigsavers) are for the removable version of the card and describe a single weird jumper I need...

Greetings, I'm looking for all the pre-1970 hard drives that DEC sold. so far all I've found is the RB09 for a PDP-9. I'm just looking for a list of them (and their controllers) for a research project I'm working on. Is there a list of these somewhere that I've overlooked? Warner

Greetings, I recently purchased a PC1XX-AK on ebay. It was billed as a 8087 board, but that was just what was printed on the board. There's no 8087 on that board. It's just a memory adapter. Which is cool, as it lets me have 832k on my 100A now. Has anybody had luck retrofitting a 8087 onto...