At 11:00 PM 9/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
I went
scrounging again today and brought home a large Zenith computer.
Model number ZDF-121-32. It's about 18" wide and 14" tall and has an
attached keybaord. It has two 5 1/4" floppy drives on the RH side of the
front and a ~12" monitor on the LH side. Can someone tell be what it is and
what kind of OS it uses? I also need OS, software and manuals if anyone
has them.
Thanks,
Joe
I want to say a Z-89. All one piece right? Let me guess, Military surplus
again? I think it ran CP/M, in fact I think my set of CP/M manuals is from
one of those systems. I've not seen one in about eight years, and never
used one, so don't really know anything about them. I know the Navy used
them as administrative computers on shore, I never saw them on ship, but
that doesn't mean a few didn't make it there. Don't know how popular they
were elsewhere.
Zane,
I want to say a Z-89.
Thanks, I was hoping it was something like that.
All one piece right?
Yes, All built in one piece.
Let me guess, Military surplus
No, this one came from an RCA test facility. I found it in a scrap yard.
BUT one of the guys there used to work on them in Germany and said that
the US Army used a lot of them there. He's getting old and fogetfull so he
could tell me much else except that most of the problems were bad power
supplies and most of them were caused by bad solder joints. Any chance of
borrowing those manuals?
Joe