DOS for S-100?

From: Rob Lion <rnlion_at_its.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu Aug 9 17:43:12 2001

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> > >There was a Zenith MS-DOS 3.31+ that ran on the Z-150/Z-151;
> > >I can probably scare it up...
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the offer but the 150 and higher models are completely
> > different machines from the Z-100. They use the ISA buss and are 100% IBM
> > compatible so the OS is basicly PC DOS.
>
> They're not *quite* 100% IBM compatible, e.g. power supply, and non-
> Zenith keyboard use eventually causes the CPU board to no longer
> recognize a Zenith keyboard.

Eventually? I don't really know anything about these systems, but it seems
strange that something like that would happen only after a while of such
use. Maybe it draws more power and eventually burns out components? Please
elaborate. :-)

-Rob

>
> But that would be picking nits...
> -dq
>
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