Charles E. Fox wrote: The Z-183, IIRC, is vintage 1988, maybe as old as 1987. It was a fairly straightforward XT/CGA-mono laptop in the days when there was a two or more year lag between implementation of a CPU in a desktop and its implementation in a portable. During the 1988 television writers' strike, I'd swear that at least half the writers in LA county came into the store I worked at in Sherman Oaks and bought new Zenith laptops to replace their aging Kaypros -- though my specialty was Xenix and Unix, I must have spent most of three months Laplinking Wordstar documents from Kaypro disks to Zenith 181 and 183 laptops (using appropriate utilities to read the Kaypro floppies in desktop PCs). For its time, the Zenith laptops were among the nicest looking laptops around -- a long way from the butt-ugly desktop boxes Zenith built. -- Ward Griffiths They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_