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Subject: Re: Zenith 158 & Add-On Boards
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Date: Sat, 2-Aug-86 20:14:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  2 20:14:00 1986
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These are my own opinions and stem from my having worked with and sold
Zenith 158's for approximately 1 year at an educational institution.  
The 158 originally had some problems do to the nature of its newness.
Those minor problems have cleared up as the machine has matured.  The
Jram board does not work in Zenith 158 machines.  I
have tried them and also talked to Tall Trees.  I do know that both the
Intel above board and the AST Rampage work quite well.  Same with the
AST 3g+ ega card.  However, it was my experience that the STB ega did
not work.  

   I have been quite happy with the 158.  You can get by with the 150ns
chips and don't need 120ns.  I prefer to buy the 2 floppy machine and
add my own hard disk.  I would buy either the Western Digital controller
with F022 rom and Seagate ST225 20 meg disk or the Adaptec 2070a controller
and ST238 30 meg.  They cost around $395 or $445 depending on where you buy
them.    You can place this drive BELOW the two floppies.  You won't see 
the hard disk light, but its nice having the two floppies.

Bob Cole     access@iuvax  (uucp)

I sell Zeniths, but I like lots of other machines too.  The above is just
to give a few ideas.