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From: ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS-Windows on Zenith-158/No Escape???
Message-ID: <107@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 13:57:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 13:57:58 1986
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> 
> Recently, I saw one of the worst PC nightmares I've ever heard of.  Users at a
> client site had taken delivery four weeks ago of a Zenith 158 with Windows on
> it and had been unable to use the machine for anything other than the 
> Windows Reversi game;  Windows was all they could see on the machine no matter
> what they did.  The machine could not be booted from a floppy ............
> 
> Ted Holden,  IMS
>
(1) All Zenith machines have a ROM monitor which can be accessed by the 
    following interrupt

                   ctrl-alt-ins   key combination.

    If  bf   is entered on the ? prompt, boot will proceed from floppy A;
    If  bw   is entered                  boot will proceed from winchester C.

    This can be used to avoid a hard-disk boot.

(2) Alternately, switch seetings exist to invoke the ROM monitor on power-up,
    after which proceed as above.

(3) Rom monitor help can be invoked by entering  ?  on the ? prompt.

(4) For what its is worth -- I love windows and I love mice;  I find myself
    moving the mouse instinctively now, even if the program I am using
    refuses to react.  MS Windows is valuable to me because it provides a
    reasonable amount of multi-tasking, which is not, for example, available
    with GEM or other products.  I can have several programs operating in the
    background while I am engaged in a foreground task.  AND IT WORKS!

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