Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!uoregon!uo-vax1!keldsen From: keldsen@uo-vax1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Is the Z-100 DEAD ? Message-ID: <27300002@uo-vax1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 19:48:00 EST Article-I.D.: uo-vax1.27300002 Posted: Fri Mar 16 19:48:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:31:16 EST References: <729@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Univ of Oregon - Eugene, OR Lines: 37 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxq:-72900:uo-vax1:27300002:000:1286 Nf-From: uo-vax1!keldsen Mar 8 16:48:00 1984 A little info about the new Z-100 PCs (just got my HUG stuff for this month). The new Zenith machines are 'very' IBM compatible (compatible slots (8), 4 of which are used in a "full-blown" machine, and other claimed enhanced-but-compatible features). They have a separate keyboard (with a real return key, can't see much else in the photos) and graphics resolution comparable to the IBM (perhaps a little better, but THE GRAPHICS RESOLUTION IS STATED TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE THAN THE Z-100!) One of the machines is a desktop, the other is portable. General shape (front view): |------------------| | +--------+| | | || | | || | +--------+| |------------------| Notice the area bounded by '+'. In the desktop version, this has floppies in it. The portable version has the CRT there, and the (thin) floppies are in a pullout panel in the top (perhaps also for convection cooling?) More info. later . . . Also, Zenith has announced a Local Area Network card for the Z-100 and an 8087 piggyback processor card. Zenith claims that they will in no way drop support for the Z-100, and have a number of future enhancements in mind. I sure hope so. i Love my H-100! "Dak" Dave Keldsen {hpcvra,hp-pcd,tektronix}!uoregon!uo-vax1!keldsen