> >malfuctioning PCs that I know of. Remember; this is for a high school;
> >for >the Department of Defence dependants; and a few others, but their
> >funding is >not... ideal. So if you could please just send a MFM HDD,
> >or; if you have
>
> I can guarentee that, the whole base in Bahrain isn't that great. I just
> happened to realize something, are these 286's "Zenith 248's"? If so they
> can be a real pain to add anything to. The DOD had ton's of these, back in
> '87 the government was getting them for about $1500 apiece. Horrible
> design, but I've got "fond" memories of them :^)
>
> Zane
Me too, I worked with those Z-1xx and Z-2xx, Z-3xx and LP and LP
cached 386sx, 386dx, 486 series so I can tell you one
thing: they were made to last if you know where to bite the problems
off. :) I have not seen single square cased power supply fail and
the drive cage is a plum to work with in older cases: loosen 4 nuts,
take any wood screws out holding the drive cage to front end, slide
it rearward and lift up! Others only 1 screw hold a cage and LP
series uses rails. Oh, they have load of green and red LED's for
status.
The worst home PC's from Zenith: Z-148 two piece
motherboard with special expensive 2 slot daughterboard, poor
EMI/magnetic field shielding plus power supply so weak that it barely
powers fully configured type. And dumb 2 plastic screws! We have a
Eazy PC, yuk, unsuccessfully finding a serial mouse to work with that
"mouse port" back in '90. Which mouse that will work with that
port so that other port on that "kludge box" can be freed up for
commuication purposes in future? What is options for "kludge boxes"
so far I've seen was extra 128k memory either with modem or serial
port but what else to this list?
Jason D.
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Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 20:32:38 GMT