>Have you ever seen a Zenith "MiniSport"? Uses 2" floppies? I found
>one at a junk sale one time and probably paid way too much for it just
>because of the cute little floppy drive. It's also got DOS in
>built-in memory, so it boots instantly. I've never seen one anywhere
>else.
Those are cute machines... There was actually a series of text files,
something of a e-mag floating around on the amateur radio packet network,
and is available on the internet somewhere. I'll try and dig up a URL. I
saw one at a swap meet last year, but I thought $20 was a bit much,
especially since there was no battery. Old Zenith laptops are interesting.
I saw a 8088 SupersPort, two 800k floppies(or an optional HD replaced the
floppy on the left side), hit ctr-alt-ins(or is it ctrl-alt-esc?) to get
into the ROM monitor(my 286 has a MFM-200, the 8088 I saw was MFM-184 or
something). In the 286, there are setup and test programs, but the 8088 was
interesting. The test software was still there, but the hardware config was
handled by a bank of jumpers next to the FPU socket. What was really
interesting, though, was the complete debugger in there with the test
program.
While I'm talking about the SupersPorts(most people type SuperSport, but on
the case and in the manual it's SupersPort. I wonder why...), does anyone
have a pinout of the internal modem slot on the SupersPort 286?
-JR
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Received on Thu Jan 29 1998 - 23:58:58 GMT