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Re: snail-like ESDI; about these new monitors...

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From: Jeff Easton
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:51
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In article <1hsi4oINNmve@shelley.u.washington.edu> djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes:
>End of the year miscellaneous queries :)
>
>(2) What is WITH all these ZDS monitors, anyway?  I mean, can somebody please
>post some specs on this bewildering array of new model numbers so we can
>figure out what's going on?  (Have I been watching too much Seinfeld?)  What

  Wow, and you sounded just like him. :-)

>on earth is a ZDS-284m?  Is it like anything we've seen before from ZDS?
>How about the ZDS-394m?  Point 39 dot pitch, are we supposed to take this
>seriously, or has ZDS found a way to make .39 look clean and clear?  A relative
>was interested in buying a ZDS 386SX/25 bundle available at a local discount
>shop (BEST), but they had none on display, and I couldn't recommend a bundle 
>with a .39 monitor I knew nothing else about.  Can someone from ZDS please
>post relevant specs about all the current monitors, especially tidbits like
>what they are intended to replace (if anything), and who makes them? ;)

  As I understand it (therfore I could be wrong :-)  These monitors and
systems are from the mass merchandising effort.  They have nothing in
common with the more traditional ZDS products that are designed in 
St. Joseph.  The PC's are built using standard components (standardized 
PCB layout, standard power supply, standard Phoenix type BIOS, etc.)
that are sourced in the Far East.  If you are familiar with the typical
ZDS machine (what ever that is :-) you will notice a difference.

>"Moby" Dick O'Connor                                 djo7613@u.washington.edu 

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From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: snail-like ESDI; about these new monitors...
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:51:17 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Dec30.205117.18747@zds-oem.zds.com>
Keywords: ESDI, slow, ZDS monitors
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