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From: klee@nas.nasa.gov (King M. Lee)
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Subject: Re: Zenith horror stories needed quickly, please
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Date: 26 Oct 90 04:16:43 GMT
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In article <90298.191725BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Jeff Boyd) writes:
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We have, at California State University, Bakersfield, had several 
hard disks go bad on one model of the 248 low profile computers.

The major complaints that I have with Zenith is that is is not
100 percent compatible.  I have a Zenith 386/16  and I purchased
a memory card for it.  It didn't work because the Zenith did not
refresh I Meg chips the way others did.  Some of my colleagues
ran DOS 3.3 with hard disk partitions greater than 32 Meg.  
Some software did not run correctly (PC Tools) because DOS
3.3 has maximum partition size of 32 MBytes.  My, and I 
believe many other, computer has  slushware whereby ROM is
moved to high RAM for increased speed.  Unfortunately, I have
heard that this interfers with some software (LOTUS version 3 ?)
and the slushware cannot be turned off.  These unexpected 
features cost  me and my colleagues a great deal of time.

As for reliability, I  cannot make a judgement  without 
a survey of thousands of computers.  We have had problems
with Zeniths, but we've also had problems with other 
computers.   I've found their service bad, but others 
didn't. Maybe I got a rotten apple.

Disclaimer: The views are my own and do not reflect anyone else's 
opinion .