17 Apr
2002
17 Apr
'02
3:44 p.m.
In a message dated 4/17/02 1:30:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
healyzh(a)aracnet.com writes:
One of the collectors I have been corresponding with has a copy of Heath
Zenith Windows 2.1 and it is marked on the spine of the Box. Mine has no
version at all.
Mine also runs on MS-DOS 2.0. There is another addendum page that indicates
how to configure windows with MS-DOS 3.1. There is no mention of MS-DOS 3.3
at all.
I was hoping someone had a Heath Zenith catalog from that era, 1985-1986.
Thanks for the help.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
Consequently,
looking back at the calendar, I think that
it's far more likely that this is Windows 2.0 or 2.1.
It's not much help, but the first Z248 that we received had MS-DOS 3.x and
Windows 1.0x floppies included with it.
I've never seen a copy of Windows 2.x, however, oddly enough I recently
found a shrink-wrapped copy of Windows 1.0 in the trash!
17 Apr
17 Apr
4:51 p.m.
One of the collectors I have been corresponding with
has a copy of
Heath Zenith Windows 2.1 and it is marked on the spine of the Box.
Mine has no version at all.
Mine also runs on MS-DOS 2.0. There is another addendum page that
indicates how to configure windows with MS-DOS 3.1. There is no
mention of MS-DOS 3.3 at all.
I was hoping someone had a Heath Zenith catalog from that era, 1985-1986.
I just found the backup copies of the WIndows disks from my
previous message...not the original disks, but copies I had made,
just in case. They are labled "Microsoft Windows Ver. 1.03" and,
like yours, there are five disks: Setup, Build, Utilities, Fonts,
and Applications. The serial# on them is 000-00198819-8-08. I'm
100% positive that they came from the Heath/Zenith package that I
have so am pretty sure it reflects what you have as well.
Hope this helps.
Jeff
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7:08 p.m.
At 04:44 PM 4/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
I was hoping someone had a Heath Zenith catalog from
that era, 1985-1986.
I haven't found a catalog from that period yet, but in the _Capital Heath
User's Group_ (CHUG) newsletter from March 1987 there is a configuration
for Government employee purchase of Zenith Z-248 computer systems.
In the breakdown is listed "MS Windows" with a part number MS-5036-30.
It goes along with part number OS-63-41, "MS-DOS version 3.2".
As an aside, in the same issue there is a description of the February
Capital PC User's Group at which the featured speaker was Bill Gates.
Some relevant highlights:
"...the Macintosh represented a machine that had sufficient critical mass
to complete with the PC-compatible dominance of the market."
[...]
"Microsoft believes that the user interfaces pioneered by the Macintosh
will become the industry standard for microcomputers."
Cheers,
Dan
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