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From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith horror stories needed quickly, please
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Date: 26 Oct 90 01:26:43 GMT
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wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:

>My 158 is one of those.

This is strange, because I've had my 158 for almost 4 years, and I've
never had a problem.  (The one time the machine malfunctioned, Zenith
sent a tech to look at it _IN_MY_DORM_ROOM_ who promptly told me it was
too close to the wall, which took care of the problem.)

>I've never been able to get EMS to work.

I have 640k of EMS that works with no hitch.  Did you buy your board
from Zenith.  (I've had both a Zenith board and an AST board, and both
of them performed flawlessly.)

>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.

I've never had a compatibilty problem either.  Overall I've been very
happy with my 158.  ZDS has been extremely helpful when it comes to
producing any type of additional materials (technical references, extra
manuals, etc.) that I might need.  The only problem I have with the machine 
is that it's only an 8088 (really V20) processor, so it's sooooo slow.

To the original poster:  If you're looking for Zenith horror stories,
you may be hard pressed.  Pick just about any other manufacturer and I
could help you, but I've never had anything but great service from
Zenith.  (I also worked at a computer center that had 100+ 148'2 and
158's, and these were real workhorse machines too.  The IBM lab always
had about 30% of the machines down, but the Zenith lab was almost always
100% operating.)

Later,
Bob
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