13 Aug
2003
13 Aug
'03
6:30 a.m.
Hi,
Oddly enough, I had one of these with exactly the same problem. I talked to
Zenith support, and they were very helpful. To disable the password, you can
solder a wire between two legs of an IC on the main board - it worked for
me. Unfortunately, I no longer have the information, but perhaps Zenith
support still does? A long shot...
Mike.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Merchberger" <zmerch(a)30below.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 6:20 AM
Subject: ePay Score...
Just picked up something I've been looking for for
quite a while off of
ePay - a Zenith Minisport ZL-2 (AFAIK, it's a ZL-1 w/2Meg RAM) laptop
computer.
Actually, the computer wasn't the important part -- the important part was
the 5 boxes of floppy disks (3 yet unopened) - those suckers are harder
than hen's teeth to find nowadays...
3 batteries, power supply, black naugahyde case (dunno how many nauga's
had
to die to make it... ;-) & the aforementioned
disks...
$50-few USD shipped.
Good news:
1) lotsa disks now... I already have a bare 2" drive that I've always
wanted to build into one of my CoCo3's - thereby making it unique. I got
the drive on ePay about 4-5 years ago, but it only had one disk. Without
more storage, that was kinda pointless, IMHO..
2) It boots!
Bad news:
There's a password on it, so it doesn't boot very far... :-(
Any utils or 'cmos clearing' keypresses or jumpers I can use to clear that
out?
Thanks, and laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????