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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Z-386 memory: no concern for users
Message-ID: <2875@pur-phy>
Date: 11 Dec 89 03:15:33 GMT
References: <33600004@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <33600004@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> krause@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Well, this is it.  I just heard from a mail-order place that specializes
>in Zenith computers that Zenith is discontinuing the memory boards for
>the old 16MHz Z-386 line.  Can anyone confirm that this is true?
>I've been calling around, and only one place said they could get them
>(a Heathkit store) but they claimed a list of $3000 for 4MB.

Shoot!  I have one of those 386-16s and work on a second one.  While both
the machines have been expanded to 5Mb, I think it has pretty much gone to 
waste.  While most of my programming is in C and Turbo Pascal, I just can't
see spending the time to learn the gyrations necessary to access the expanded 
extended memormy.  I much prefer the Unix or the Mac or the Amiga to do any
thing that \requires that I grab/malloc more than 640K.  Yeah, I know
that's my problem, but then again that is my solution.  Well, keeping with
the subject line, If any one is so foolish to buy a 32bit memory board for 
that price, you deserve what you get.  The two expansion baoards we have 
both are 4 Mb, cost ~$1800 a piece.  For $3000 you might as well sell that
piece of junk and buy a different brand clone.  At least other brands
kknow how to expand memory painlessly i.e. SIMMs.  Yes I know that Zenith
now uses SIMMs.  


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 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu