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Article #41166Re: Zenith 386/16 and ESDI WD1007V-SE2
From: Timothy Takahashi
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 16:21
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 16:21
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We also use a Zenith Z-386 16-mhz system...... it is a piece of junk... nothing quite seems to be compatible with it. It was purchased during the memory crunch back in 88. Supposed to run Windows/386. It was ordered with 2Mb or Ram, arrived with 1Mb. Windows/386 supplied with the machine would not run with the stock DOS (Zenith MS-DOS 3.3) Zenith suggested upgrading to their MS-DOS 3.3plus (with an incompatible FAT) Eventually we made it run under IBM PC-DOS 3.2. But the video board was garbage, 31 Khz but NOT VGA Compatible! That finally got thrown out for a Video 7 1024i. To this day, Windows/386 is not stable and Windows/286 does not task switch properly.. By the way, we caused enough commotion at Zenith that they sent us a free megabyte of memory. Tim Takahashi ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ttak From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Zenith 386/16 and ESDI WD1007V-SE2 Message-ID: <4725@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 90 16:21:22 GMT References: <19500050@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 17