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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Zenith 386/16 and ESDI WD1007V-SE2
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Date: 10 Jan 90 16:21:22 GMT
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Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
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We also use a Zenith Z-386 16-mhz system...... it is a piece of junk... nothing
quite seems to be compatible with it. 

It was purchased during the memory crunch back in 88. Supposed to run
Windows/386. It was ordered with 2Mb or Ram, arrived with 1Mb. Windows/386
supplied with the machine would not run with the stock DOS (Zenith MS-DOS 3.3)
Zenith suggested upgrading to their MS-DOS 3.3plus (with an incompatible FAT)
Eventually we made it run under IBM PC-DOS 3.2. But the video board was garbage,
31 Khz but NOT VGA Compatible! That finally got thrown out for a Video 7 1024i.
To this day, Windows/386 is not stable and Windows/286 does not task switch
properly..

By the way, we caused enough commotion at Zenith that they sent us a free
megabyte of memory.

Tim Takahashi
ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu