World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sun Dec 10 20:53:44 2000

>Since it was in and out of the shop so quickly we didn't get much of a chance
>to check out the system (Z200? S200?) but it looked as if the mainboard was
>pretty much just a backplane, with the 10MHz AMD 286 CPU on an ISA card.

        Sounds like a Z-248, though I guess they could've had others
of that basic type that carried other model numbers which I don't
know about. Lage desktop case with 4 HH drive bays on the right
side. If I remember correctly, both the memory and CPU board were in
proprietary slots.

>Anyone familiar with this beast? It looked pretty cool. Could cards with
>faster CPUs be installed in place of the 286 card?

        There was a 386SX-16 board made for the machine that replaced
both the CPU board and proprietary Zenith memory card. The SX board
used 30pin SIMMs for the onboard RAM. I no longer remember who
manufactured the board though, but I have installed a few of them in
years past. The Z-248 was used widely by the US Navy and is often
found at surplus sales. As far as compatibility, it did pretty good.

        Hope this helps.

        Jeff
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