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From: vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Zenith Z150 problems
Summary: printer problems, keyboard problems, 720k ram?
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.035532.11535@rpi.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 03:55:32 GMT
Reply-To: vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu ()
Organization: CIE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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I just picked up a Zenith Z150(?) portable and I have a few problems:

1) While running Turbo Pascal 4.0 print screen and ^k^p print in upper
   case. A program run from RAM from the integrated environment which
   prints works fine however. This is just weird. I think it may be
   something like Turbo is changing system memory which may not be the
   same between PC-DOS and Z-DOS.

2) The system was crashing on boot up, it would get through
   AUTOEXEC.BAT but would crash after the system prompt, with the
   keyboard apparently working but the keystokes never getting
   anywheres. I did use the CONFIGUR program and I think that might
   have been part of it, so I did a SYS from my original DOS disk
   and that seemed to cure it. Any ideas on what happened here.

3) The system comes with a 320k ram board, there is also a
   multifunction card with 384k, is there any way I can use the last
   64k to het 720k? If not, any one want to buy 9 64k DRAMs?




 



























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Frank Filz
Center For Integrated Electronics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu