Documentation on Software used with the Rainbow 100 Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1982-1985
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content: Digital Equipment Corporation
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content: The Rainbow 100 microcomputer received as part of accession 1994.0078 came with a wide range of documentation. Documentation on the software received with the system outside of notebooks has been grouped into ten folders, whose contents can be described roughly as follos:
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content: 1. software for the Rainbow - this includes a listing of products approved by DEC for use with the machine, a leaflet describing CP/M Communications, a computer listing of the names of various programs, and a printout of information about SKI version 5.1
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content: .2 descriptions of operating systems for the Rainbow, particularly CP/M - 86/80, CCP/M, and MS-DOS
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content: 3. photocopies of a document on the FOOTNOTE note numbering and formatting program developed by Pro/Tem Software, Inc. for use with WordStar, 1982
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content: 4. an October 15, 1983 press release of MicroArt Corporation in Portland, Oregon, announcing the release of its IMAGE Word/Graphics Processor, Release 4.0 for the Rainbow 100. Also a photocopied sheet giving the location of WordPerfect Features on the DEC Rainbow 100
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content: 5. A 1984 advertisement from <I>Byte</I> magazine for the Microsoft Mouse
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content: 6. A printout of information about version 3.30 of LC-Term, a 1984 file transfer program by Larry Campbell of Maynard, Massachusetts, that supported both the KERMIT and the XMODEM file-transfer protocols.
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content: 7. The manual for version 1.6 of the program Bibliography - copyrighted by Pro/Tem, Inc., in 1985
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content: 8. Printouts describing the FEDIT Font Editor (version 2.01) and FPRINT Font Printer (version 2.02), 1985. Both programs are by J. Anthony Moyshon.
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content: 9. an advertisement for Micro Control Systems's Space Tablet Advanced Space Grapics System
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content: 10. documentation on the Kermit-32 file transfer protocol.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Steve Lubar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.3022.10
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content: 1994.3022.10
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content: 1994.3022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in x 1 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm x 2.54 cm