26 Aug
1998
26 Aug
'98
12:41 p.m.
At 05:15 PM 8/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
You know, one of the truly cool S-100 8086 boxes that was available
for a long time was the H/Z-100. You could get the all-in-one or
separate monitor configuration, color, 8', 5.25" floppies, etc. etc.
It ran Mess-DOS as well as H-dos (dual processors).
I lusted for one when I was a kid. The other day I found a pair of
them smashed to bits at a local surplus dealer.
It was truly depressing. Timing is definitely everything in this
game.
Jeff
< Someone
posted saying that there in fact was a 2.11 which I've not been
< able to find reference to. By any chance was that what came with a PCjr
I've seen it on PC xts, DEC VAXmates and S100
8086 boxen.
S100 8086 boxes ?
Are there still some left ?
I never thought they had shown up in a big mass.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
26 Aug
26 Aug
11:07 a.m.
At 10:41 26-08-98 -0700, Jeff Kaneko <jeff.kaneko(a)ifrsys.com> wrote:
At 05:15 PM 8/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
You know, one of the truly cool S-100 8086 boxes that was available
for a long time was the H/Z-100. You could get the all-in-one or
separate monitor configuration, color, 8', 5.25" floppies, etc. etc.
It ran Mess-DOS as well as H-dos (dual processors).
I lusted for one when I was a kid. The other day I found a pair of
them smashed to bits at a local surplus dealer.
The H/Z-100's also ran CP/M-85. As some of you know it was a dual
processor machine (8085/8088). Served well as a transition machine for
those who had lots of CP/M applications and were moving into the then-new
MessDos world. I've got two low-profile models (Z-110's, the model series
refered by Jeff as 'separate monitor configuration') one plain-jane with
just dual floppies and 768K RAM and the other I hot-rodded with UCI's IBM
PC Emulator add-on hardware, NEC V20 CPU and a 30 MB RLL HDD. The UCI parts
made it pretty much XT-compatible but a very few s/w applications which had
not been written completely XT-generic would give problems. Still a 7.xx XT
MHz machine by most any standards though.
--Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/
<
Someone posted saying that there in fact was a 2.11 which I've not been
< able to find reference to. By any chance was that what came with a PCjr
I've seen it on PC xts, DEC VAXmates and S100
8086 boxen.
S100 8086 boxes ?
Are there still some left ?
I never thought they had shown up in a big mass. 
12:26 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
You know, one of the truly cool S-100 8086 boxes that
was available
for a long time was the H/Z-100. You could get the all-in-one or
separate monitor configuration, color, 8', 5.25" floppies, etc. etc.
It ran Mess-DOS as well as H-dos (dual processors).
Yeah, that is a really cool box. I have one with the documentation and
some software.
I lusted for one when I was a kid. The other day I
found a pair of
them smashed to bits at a local surplus dealer.
I was offered one locally (California) a couple weeks ago but the buyer
wasn't interested in selling it at the price I wanted to buy. If you want
I can hook you up with him. Perhaps he's interested in going through the
trouble of shipping it for the right price.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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