Zenith 248's

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Thu May 21 14:45:08 1998

Hi. Are these the 286's that Zenith sold by the mass-quadrillions to the US
Gov't??? If so, they're pretty cool, when you get down to it. CPU's on a
backplane, they had a 386 upgrade, and even a 486 one, but the 386's didn't
sell, 486's were only prototypes, from what I can tell.
    By pressing CRL+INS you could get into this WAY COOL Apple II like ROM
test program. Pleanty of RAM, etc. Trust me, I know. Every single day of
the week, I USE ONE OF THESE in math class. Cool retro use, don't you
agree??? It runs WP 5.1, they weren't equipped with Windows, but MS-DOS 5.0
(at least that's what I see, might have been 3.3), and some came with this
cool monitor that had a Amber/Green/Normal switch, but only worked well in
mono, not CGA mode.

    Tim D. Hotze
Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 14:45:08 BST