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From: kent@wasp.ufnet.ufl.edu (Kent Phelps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith 386 Boat Anchors!!
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Date: 24 Jul 90 16:58:40 GMT
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Well - I'm not one to say that ZDS doesn't have more than their fair share
of faults but the Z-386/33 isn't one of them.

I'm not sure what other people's problems have been but -

The Z-386/33 IS a MS-DOS/PC-DOS compatable machine, contrary to what
some other folks have posted.

I am currently typing this posting in a Window running Telnet on my
Z-386/33 ( under Windows 3.0 - ZDS version ).  Before I installed Windows
3.0 I had run Windows 2.11 with no difficulty though I did not use it
extensively.  I don't know why other folks are having so many problems 
with Windows ( other than the bugs that all other folks are suffering)
on ZDS machines.

There are two true VGA boards that ZDS supplies with their machines now.
A regular 256k 16 bit VGA board and a "High Performance" VGA card w/512k.
I have run both in my 33 with the only problem being that when I had
the Hi-Perf board the screen kept going to monochrome.  This problem
was traced to the motherboard.  Since the motherboard was replaced there
have been no problems.  Even when the screen went monochrome the unit   
ran fine, just everything was in monochrome.

Don't toss those Z-386's overboard yet!
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