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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 21:48:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 21:48:41 1984
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Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin
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	There is a deal here at Univ. of Texas to get a Zenith 100
with 2 drives, 128K ram etc for $1975.00.  This seems like a great
deal but I need to know if the S-100 bus in that machine is really
standard.  For example will standard Compupro boards fit?  Could
I pop in a hard disk, more memory, and a 68K board (say from compu-
pro) in the near future and off I go to Unix land?  Or does the
thing require special things from Heath/Zenith?

ut-ngp)

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Date: Sat, 4-Feb-84 01:58:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  4 01:58:00 1984
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Ref your question on the correctness of the Z100's S100 bus --
I closely queried a sales team recently here at Ft Bragg (including the area
manager or some such from Charlotte).  They confirm (for what it's worth)
a true S100 bus, but could give absolutely no information or recommendations
on what (if anything) else would run on it beside Zenith boards.  I'm
watching this myself, since I'd like to stay with S100 to maintain
compatibility/backup with my Toad (a Morrow Decision I).  No word yet from
the USAF or USN - not enough of them out there yet, I guess, or not enough
adventuresome people to stick alien boards in a Govt-owned machine!

David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall