Re: Zenith 386 Boat Anchors!!

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From: Chad Price
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 23:13

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In <5388@milton.u.washington.edu> djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes:

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>>Is your VGA card (or if its a 31-khz Video Adaptor, its really an EGA card)

>Buzz!  Urban legend.  The very first, original "VGA" cards installed in 
>Zenith machines were model number Z-449, and they were BIOS-compatible VGA
>cards that weren't register (hardware) compatible.  Zenith stopped calling
>them VGA and went to "extended EGA" after awhile, even in the docs.  There
>was even 
> a trade-in program 

Thats news to me. I never received any notice & certainly registered and
would have upgraded given the chance. 

Do you have the address & or phone number for the upgrade ?? I'd like to
try. (PS I got my Zenith through Univ Colo @ Denver)

>for the replacement, TRUE VGA card, the Z-549
>(and its close cousin, the Heath HB-550), but that program may have been
>limited to University campuses.  I've been running Z549 cards for two years
.
.
>>
>To this, let me add; Did you install Zenith's version of Windows 3?  It's
>been available now for some time (got my upgrade cards in the mail two
>weeks ago), 

Again - please send / post address. I never received any upgrade info
from them.

Chad Price
price@fergvax.unl.edu

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