At an auction this past Saturday, I picked up a Zenith Z386-20 (okay, it might, just might, be 10 years old). It looks to be a decent system, and today is the first day I've been able to play around with it, as I had to scrape up some 72-pin SIMMS for memory. Upon turning the unit on, I get (if I recall - it doesn't stay very long on the screen): Bad CMOS configuration blah blah yada yada Then the screen goes blank and the system just sits there, fans spinning. I have some questions about the unit I figure I'd through out here before going to alt.folklore.computers. 1. It doesn't seem to even look at the keyboard. Do Zeniths use a proprietary keyboard, or is the POST routine not getting past the bad CMOS? 2. The computer itself has a daughter board that contains the ROMs, a SmartBattery (DALLAS - DS1260-100 / 9816 / 3V Lithium battery), an Intel 8742 (Universal Peripheral Interface 8-bit Slave uController) and other neat features (the 8 LEDs are a nice touch). The Smart battery can be removed, but I'm wondering if it's a common item and is easily replaced. 3. The daughter board also contains the ROMs, and the one that's in there looks to be an EPROM. The markings are TMS / 27C512JL / LPD8809. I'm mostly a software guy, so some of this hardware is puzzling to say the least. I'd like to get this system up and running. -spc (Oh, so it's www.zds.com and NOT www.zenith.com 8-)