Zenith Z160 Luggable PC aquired
Devin
lyokoboy0 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 18:05:15 CST 2016
Picture of the parallel port drive i am using is attached. Looks like it
will be pretty nice if i get it working, i picked it up in box at a
scrapyard, the driver floppy was destroyed beyond reading, and took me a
while to find the drivers for.
https://s20.postimg.org/4t9067ka5/IMG_0026_1.jpg
I appreciate the advice on the drives. I do have some spare 720K and
1.2MB drives, if one of those will work with the stock controller it
will be of much better use to me. I do have interest in being able to
use it on an external monitor so ill look into tracking down a Zenith
version of dos.
DOS software is the main focus, not really interested in windows. I have
an 8 bit ISA sound blaster card, i want to see if i can get some music
tracker software going on it, or perhaps a BBS / JNOS .
--Devin
On 12/11/2016 6:03 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> If it can run DOS 3.20, or depending on WHICH MS-DOS 2.11 is
>> available, then the 360K drives can be trivially swapped out for 720K.
>
> Your picture shows "generic" MS-DOS 5.00
>
> So, you absolutely can connect 720K drives. (a 1.4M drive will
> prob'ly be seen as being 720K)
>
> It definitely can handle a hard drive. (trivial GOOGLE shows that a
> 20M drive was available, but ANY XT drive and controller should
> prob'ly be usable.
> Your parallel port hard drive should be fine, once you make a SPARE
> system disk with enough extraneous stuff deleted off of it.
>
> TRY to find a copy of ZENITH (NOT ANY OTHER BRAND!!) MS-DOS ("Z-DOS")
> 2.11 or 3.31
> If you want to be able to switch between the internal monitor and an
> external one, you will need MODE.COM from one of THOSE two versions.
> (and you will need to stetp on the INT21h function call 30h in
> MODE.COM, OR MS-DOS 5.00 will need to run SETVER to keep from getting
> a "Wrong DOS version" error message)
>
>
> If you are crazy enough to want to, you should be able to run Windows
> 3.00 on it, but NOT 3.10 or above. Windows, of course, will require
> more disk space than you currently have.
>
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