Donation For School Wanted

From: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Fri Dec 12 04:49:15 1997

> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:19:17 -0800, you said:
>
> >Yeh, that's a Zenith 248. The monitor should be a EGA, either mono or
> >colour assuming it's one of the Zenith ones. The colour ones were kinda
> >cool, they're the type that let you switch between mono green, mono amber,
> >and colour (I can't even remember how many colours EGA is 8 or 16). The
> >CPU is on a daughterboard,

That's not in tall cases, this is called LP 286 series I think, and
you can upgrade it to 386sx status and only use 3.5" drives unless
someone chose a taller case with same footprint to get both and one
5.25" bay. In fact, at my U of Q, tech support did that
over 10's of them and I collected all those 286 daughterboards
because those 286 chips is Harris usually and this is very cool
running CPU at 12mhz I have seen (CMOS 80C286). Those little boxes
has video card is on board and VGA only. The early LP series used
ET3000 or ET4000 chipset on a ISA card plugged into slot tree. The
old cases that used 8088 or 286 cards interchangeably along with
slots is much bigger and taller. The old 286 on a card used C&T EGA
card in last slot capble of emulating the VGA frequencies to drive
regular VGA monitors but to s/w is EGA (!!) or plain EGA monitor.
Cool card. :) It's somewhat oddball card enough to require a video
rom upgrade to make it work in other non-zenith machines.

Comment: I have not seen Zenith CGA color or mono, but I have seen
lots of both types old and new in either composite or TTL and VGA
monitor either in old or newer type cases as well. EGA color by
zenith? Dunno. But I loved their FTM but problem was reliability
and cost in '90 and earlier. Recently, few days ago, I overheard one
zenith FTM monitor fell apart from crumbling boards! Which one is
most reliable and least troublesome FTM monitors from Zenith?

Troll (Jason D.)

> Maybe there've been different Z248's: I have one that's got a
> traditional motherboard (Utah-shaped) with memory (30-pin SIMMS)
> on the motherboard. (It's >10 years old!)
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