Osborne Encore / Zenith Z170

Reprinted form the Dead,Gone and Obsolite Computer WebSite: The Osborne Encore is not the successor of the famous Osborne 1. Few times after launching the successor of the Osborne 1, the Osborne Executive, Osborne Corp. had serious financial problems and stopped all its activities. The founder of the company, Adam Osborne created then a research company and the result of his work is the Osborne Encore. It is a MSDOS computer. The Encore has a built-in modem (I don't know its speed). The keyboard has four 'icon' keys which call small program located in ROM : the "phone" key calls the communication software, the "clock" key calls a calendar, the "disk" key boots the system and the "calculator" key calls the little calculator. The screen can display only 16 lines, so only few MSDOS softwares can be used (the lower 9 lines are invisible). When it was conceived, the Encore had a 25 lines LCD screen, but when it was launched, it had a 16 lines screen (?). My Machine: The Zenith Z170 has a composite jack that supports 24lines by 80 column, and built in modem. Whats interesting about this computer is that it has build in several things like a calendar, Memo pad, World map, and Calculator.. All this is built in ROM, and runs before the machine is even booted..