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From: notes@isucs1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Term-mite and ZRT-80 boards....
Message-ID: <274@isucs1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 02:01:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 02:01:39 1985
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Nf-From: isucs1!drew    Jan 24 16:15:00 1985

I assembled a ZRT-80 board about 6 months ago and I can highly recommend it.
It is a very high-quality kit with locking dipswitches and machined-pin sockets
for the 40-pin chips (socket cost  > $5).  I soldered the thing together in 
about 3 hours, hooked it up to my old SOL-20 keyboard and a modem and dialed
up the university VAX with absolutely no problem!  The documentation is good,
but it is sketchy on theory of operation and customization of the rom program
(Maybe this information is on the disk, but my disk system isn't up yet).

DRC has put out an excellent product, and anyone who is in the market for
a quality low-priced terminal (and doesn't mind doing a little soldering
and other such work) would be well advised to buy at least one ZRT-80.


(By the way, this response was entered on my ZRT-80 in H19 mode.)



                                  Jeff Henkels