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From: consp21@bingsung.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Zenith Z150 problems
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Date: 16 Oct 89 04:57:14 GMT
References: <1989Oct16.035532.11535@rpi.edu>
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In article <1989Oct16.035532.11535@rpi.edu>, vicc@unix.cie.rpi.edu writes:
> 
> I just picked up a Zenith Z150(?) portable and I have a few problems:
>  [...]
> 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.

	Strange, indeed.  Sounds to me like a bad copy of COMMAND.COM or one
of the BDOS files (???IO.COM, ??DOS.COM).  If a SYS has cured it, you should be
on your way.  I don't know a heck of a lot about how well DOS works with the
compromises necessary to wedge a PC into a notebook.

	Could anyone tell me what (if, indeed, any) problems could be caused
by a laptop environment for DOS?

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Ken Hoover [ consp21@bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu | consp21@bingvaxa.BITNET ]
     Resident computer jock and Mac hacker, SUNY-Binghamton Bio dept.
     Senior undergraduate consultant, SUNY-Binghamton Computer Center
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