Zenith Z150 complete system available

After a long hiatus from ClassicCmp (back before the split to two lists), I'm back for awhile. And I think I'm ready to part with a system I've had since the mid-80s, assuming there is someone interested. I have a complete, original-owner Zenith Z150 (PC compatible) system. Alas, the system is not running (the last time I tried, it was stopping on the CPU POST test). I bought this when I was in graduate school and used it to both write the initial FORTRAN code for my computer model, and to write my doctoral dissertation. This system includes the original keyboard and the single-color (green) CGA monitor. Purchased with two 5-1/4-inch floppy drives and a single 320 Kbyte memory card. After-market mods included adding a 20-Mbyte MFM-RLL hard drive (below the diskette drives, so both are still there), the NEC V20 (or was that V30) CPU replacement, and the MR-150 (?) memory mod that let you replace the five banks of 64K chips with 256K chips and get full memory (640Kbyte, plus a bank below the video memory) and a 512Kbyte ram disk (bank-switched into place). Software (with diskettes and docs), much of it rebadged for Zenith, but also some MS-direct upgrades, includes DOS (various versions), diagnostics, MS FORTRAN (couple of versions), MS Word (DOS versions 1.x up to 5.x), etc. I've hung onto this for both sentimental reasons and because I didn't what a scrapper (here or in China) get it. I probably even have all the original paperwork if I look in the right box. At this point I'd rather not part-out the system, and would rather find an interested collector (preferably in the Midwest or local as I'd rather not ship, unless the price is right - I'm in Dubuque, Iowa). I recall a member of this list several years ago saying he had a bunch of replacement boards for the Z150, and so it could be made to be working again. I'm not crazy...I just would rather not see the waste (and my wife is tired of me storing and moving this system for all the years that I have). And I'd rather focus my attention on other types/flavors of computers right now. Write me if you are interested (with offers and trades). Now back to your regular programming on DEC PDP-8's, 11's, etc., which I need to get caught up on. Cheers/73, Kevin Anderson * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Kevin L. Anderson Ph.D., Geographer/GIS Analyst, Dubuque Iowa kla (at ) helios (dot) augustana (dot) edu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *