Unix on Zenith Supersport SX

From: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Mon Dec 8 02:12:28 1997

Hi John, there's way....

> At 11:51 PM 12/7/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >Please dig up more memory at least 4-8mb and plug in and you will be
> >happy, the hd is tad tight but doable, but you could swap the hd out
> >for bigger ones. I think this one uses standard IDE 3.5" or 2.5" hd.
>
> Sure does. I just pulled the 40mb out and put this 104mb HD in (not 110mb
> like I said earlier). No problems whatsoever. The SS sx doesn't have a user
> defined drive type, so the largest drive in BIOS is 220mb, but the 104mb was
> the only thing laying around. he SS sx will support up to 8mb, but the
> memory upgrades cost $58 each from what I could find on the internet. If my
> budget allowed, I'd get it, but would like to find something cheaper.
>
You're not only one with little money, I was able to score a used
8mb card for my lte 386s/20 for about 33 USD or (90 CDN, I'm
canadian) with shipping included only thing that made it go up was
they shipped by UPS which is costly, so I warned repeatadly to them.
Oh well. But I still suggest that you dig up a working conner
200mb if it's 1" x 3.5" because this is consistently low power I can
find most of time or any 200-500mb 2.5" drive. They can't cost more
than 50 USD which I did with a 500mb 2.5" ide. Then plug that 104 or
220mb (if this drive is more than 220mb) selection in cmos and
linux will take care of any remaining space not covered by cmos
selection. But if you use 2.5" with 3.5" adapter, the power
requirement drops, adding runtime to your battery. :)

Try the comp.sys.laptops and comp.sys.zenith newsgroups. I was able
to score 4 things cheaply this way. empty Lunchbox, complete but
tad sick (now fixed) SLT 386s/20 (needs more memory and no luck with
series of requests on newsgroup in this regard. :( (!) ) with
docking station, SLT 286, SLT series broken power brick (model 2687
two burnt resistors, no luck again on newsgroups, anyone here with
this brick please contact me with BIG plea! This one has deatachable
DC cord, the model 2681 does not). Finally, a complete, unbroken
seal original packaged LTE 386s/20 motherboard! Recently scored a
deal on a docking station for LTE 386s/20 for $50 shipping included.
All of this happened within 9 months period, paced by my budget.

I'm most interested in getting that SLT 386s/20 up to speed with more
memory because this is one that can take standard 3.5" drives.

Troll (this is nickname, realname: Jason D.)

PS: LTE 286 was my first used notebook for short term but sold it to
afford a NOS discountiuned line LTE 386s/20 in late summer of '93.

> - John Higginbotham
> - limbo.netpath.net
 
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