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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith horror stories needed quickly, please
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Date: 26 Oct 90 00:18:57 GMT
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Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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My 158 is one of those.
I've never been able to get EMS to work. When I bought a VGA card, it
took two trips to ZDS for them to admit that:

1) yes, the CPU card should work with a Video 7 VGA. 
2) yours won't
3) we don't know why.

After many letters, calls, etc, they replaced the card with one that
did work. Note the replaced card was NOT the one in the box at
purchase. THOSE were 40% jumpers--I sarcastically called them "flight
{grade} hardware" and got ZDS to come up with both CPU & Floppy/video
cards that were at least later than 'prototype' level.

I never succeeded in getting onto the MSDOS upgrade list, either.

The Capital Heath User Group members I knew used to kid me that
that {non pc clone} Z-100 was more compatible than my 158.


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