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From: kbowles@den.mmc.com (mac bowles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith Flatscreen Monitor Quality?
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:10:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: den.1992Oct13.211029.19618
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver

In article <1992Oct10.183632.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>I wonder if anybody has had experience with the Zenith 1495(?) flatscreen
>monitor? Having looked high and low for a decent monitor, I have been referred
>to that one--fairly expensive--but I am told VERY crisp. 95% of the color
>monitors I have seen are fuzzy, are ergonomically unsound and should not be out
>there. I wonder, also, if this Zenith is non-interlaced, reliable, and whether
>the company provides decent warranty service if needed. General comments will
>be appreciated as well.-- 

I have had a 1492 for four years, and even though it is only a VGA non
interlaced monitor, it is oustanding. I find nothing I like better until I get
to the $2000+ range of 20" and up monitors.
From: Mark%FDC@Arizona.edu (Mark R. Toth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Is there anything to beef up an 'ole Z-183 laptop?
Summary: Want cpu add-in or board swap for up-grade to at least '286
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:29:16 GMT
Organization: Facilities Design & Construction, Univ. of Arizona

Greetings,

I've inherited at work an old xt class Z-183 dual floppy (720k) laptop.
For my running around and testing ethernet for basic connection tests or
talking to asynch interfaces on 10baseT hubs its done real well.  Still,
there's things like running Beholder to monitor my subnet which I'd like
to do without it crashing during traffic.  So does anyone know of a
surplus or gray market for:

	- cpu upgrade or '286 mother board/piggy-back cpu daughter card
	- hard drive internal preferred but at this stage even external
	- trade-in programs for a new laptop at reduced price.

Thanks

8{)
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From: bdahlen@diana.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen @ U. of Denver)
Subject: Re: Zenith Flatscreen Monitor Quality?
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:10:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.183632.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>I wonder if anybody has had experience with the Zenith 1495(?) flatscreen
>monitor? Having looked high and low for a decent monitor, I have been referred
>to that one--fairly expensive--but I am told VERY crisp. 95% of the color
>monitors I have seen are fuzzy, are ergonomically unsound and should not be out
>there. I wonder, also, if this Zenith is non-interlaced, reliable, and whether
>the company provides decent warranty service if needed. General comments will
>be appreciated as well.-- 

The 1495 appears to be the 1492 in a new colored skin.  It's a 14" VGA 
monitor with an analog RGB input and 31.5kHz scan freq.  THe really nice 
feature is it's unique flat screen (Flat Tension Mask) and special 
Optical Coating Lab's "no-glare" surface.  Educational price is $527.

A good alternative is the NEC 3FGX 15" Multisync Non-Int. Super VGA 
monitor.  It will do MAC or PC and sells for around $650.

If you can afford it, the New Zenith ZCM-1790 is a 17" Multi-Sync
1024x768 with a FTM and OCL coating.  This is the 17" flat screen
Compaq is reselling with their name on it.  Ed. price $1027.

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University of Denver - Denver, Colorado 80208 (303) 871-4385
Internet:bdahlen@du.edu                 BITNET:bdahlen@ducair
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo)
Subject: 4 MEGS of RAM, How do I configure?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:56:18 GMT

HI, 
something got messed up when I switched an os and 
I accedentally reconfigured my memory allocation in
the monitor program.  HELP!
Everything is running sooooooo sloooowwwwwwwwww.
Especially my windows.
Anyone out there, can you tell me the best way to 
configure my memory.  I had 640K base, and 3.36M extra.
What do I do...How much expanded... etc etc.
even if you dont have the optimum but use 4 megs and 
everything runs fine, could you let me know your setup?
Thanks!
BTW, I have a 386sx-20


Derek

Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
From: singer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: Zenith Flatscreen Monitor Quality?
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:36:32 GMT

I wonder if anybody has had experience with the Zenith 1495(?) flatscreen
monitor? Having looked high and low for a decent monitor, I have been referred
to that one--fairly expensive--but I am told VERY crisp. 95% of the color
monitors I have seen are fuzzy, are ergonomically unsound and should not be out
there. I wonder, also, if this Zenith is non-interlaced, reliable, and whether
the company provides decent warranty service if needed. General comments will
be appreciated as well.-- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
From: koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz)
Subject: st-251 and Z-100
Originator: koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:11:10 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: st-251 and Z-100
Summary: 
Expires: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Keywords: 

A quick question --

	Does anyone else have a Z-100 with Seagate ST-251-x drive?  If so,
	do you find any problem with the powersupply 'starting' the drive?

	I had to 'select' powersupplies that would start the drive from a
	'stockpile' of them.  By 'start' I mean spin-up, literally _start_.

Walt K.

ps -- other than 'selected' powersupplies, is there a way to address this?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
From: weisee@aix.rpi.edu (Elizabeth A. Weise)
Subject: Re: st-251 and Z-100
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:43:34 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.121110.15950@nosc.mil> koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
>
>	Does anyone else have a Z-100 with Seagate ST-251-x drive?  If so,
>	do you find any problem with the powersupply 'starting' the drive?
>
>	I had to 'select' powersupplies that would start the drive from a
>	'stockpile' of them.  By 'start' I mean spin-up, literally _start_.
>
>ps -- other than 'selected' powersupplies, is there a way to address this?

I had a 40-meg ST238 (I think?) that would "klunk" quietly about once
a second, on powerup. COuldn't get it to work properly. Eventually I got
it to work when I had plugged on another drive (floppy?) to the power 
connection - and the *extremely* wierd thing was that it would work from
one power connection, say J493 to the HD, J492 to the floppy, but
swapping them to J492 to the JD and J493 to the floppy, it wouldn't work.
(Note imitation connector numbers...)

The only possible idea I came up with on this was that the HD needed 
*exactly* the right voltages, or it'd be irritated and not spin up.
With the extra load on the Z supply, it'd be happy. Could be that swapping
the supplies around is finding one with the "right" 5 and 12 volt settings
... check with a voltmeter, see how far off the supplies are on an otherwise
running Z supply (meaning one that's running a system, so it's properly loaded.
I bet you could load down the supply with a few RAM cards, and if the supply
was too high before, it might start the drive. |-} "Yeah, to run this
hard drive I needed an extra 512k of RAM..."

-- Tom Moeller, under the guise of
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From: Green@vos.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re:Minisport questions
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:50:05 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering

I tried to post this info last week, but ran into trouble 
locally.  Here's the second attempt. 
 
In article <chein.920930085206@eng.auburn.edu> 
chein@eng.auburn.edu (Tsan Heui) wrote: 
 
> What I'm interested to know is where to get 2" floppy disk? 
> Is any mail-order vendor around? 
> Is it possible to get an external floppy drive (3.5" or 5.25") these day? 
 
In article <BvIH4M.KMr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> csjos@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu 
(John Stafford) wrote: 
 
> Items needed for a HEATH ZENITH  MINISPORT LAP TOP COMPUTER 
> i am in need of a disk drive and cable interface anybody know of where  
> such a creature may exist for sale please contact my my email address is 
> csjos@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu or you can call 234-3283 tnx . 
 
Try calling the Zenith Customer Assistance Center at 
1-800-227-3360.  They can probably tell you whether Zenith 
itself still sells this stuff.  Or call the Zenith Direct sales 
people at 1-800-582-0524. 
 
Note that the external floppy drive for the Minisport is the 
same as the drive for the Minisport HD.  For a while, C.O.M.B. 
(a big liquidator in Minneapolis) was selling them off, but I 
haven't seen them listing it for a while.  I don't have their 
phone number, but they are a big outfit. 
 
Since my original attempt to post this answer, I have heard back 
that Zenith is selling the external floppy drive for $299, and 
that there are companies selling the floppy disks for $40 for 
10!  Yikes!  If anyone has success at lower prices, please post 
the info. 
 
Thanks. 
PG 
 
 
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From: greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org (Greg Vigneault) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: TORONTO 286 VGA LAPTOP
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:19:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Baudeville BBS - Toronto, Canada 416-283-0114 2000+ conferences
Reply-To: greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org (Greg Vigneault) 

 Have LAPTOP, will travel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Zenith Data Systems SupersPort 286e laptop for SALE ...

 o CPU: 80C286 12MHz (0ws = 15MHz Landmark). 80C287 copro socket.
 o VGA 640x480 Page-White backlit LCD.  External colour VGA port.
 o 1 MegaByte memory.  Expandable with Zenith & 3rd-party memory.
 o 101-key keyboard equivalent.  Connector for external 101/102-key.
 o 42 MegaByte IDE hard drive.  Readily upgraded to 100Meg+
 o 1.44Meg 3.5" floppy drive.  External 5.25" diskette drive port.
 o 1 Serial RS-232 (COM1), 1 Parallel (LPT1), standard connectors.
 o Expansion chassis connection port. (Zenith name brand brings plenty
   of 3rd-party support, and options.)
 o Internal 2400 bps modem (COM2).
 o NiCad battery & A.C. adapter/charger.
 o Padded carrying case with storage compartments & shoulder strap.
 o Zenith MS-DOS 3.3+ and 4.01
 o many, many utilities

 Sale by original owner.  CDN$900, or best (sensible) offer.

 Also: extra NiCAD battery, A.C. adapter, and system schematics: $75.

 Location: West Toronto (you pick up, or maybe C.O.D.).

 Telephone: (416) 531-3344 [answering service]
 FAX:       (416) 531-4844 [Monday..Friday only]
 Mail:      P.O.Box 7169, Station A, Toronto, Canada M5W 1X8.

 Greg Vigneault

 Oct.02.1992.Toronto.Canada.
 greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org
 gregsv@eastern.com
                                                                
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
From: ucc19@rosie.uh.edu (James Yee)
Subject: Fileserver information
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:48:00 GMT

  We are a university facility and are trying to improve our present MSDOS
compatible setup. We are presently using twenty-five Zenith MSDOS
compatibles which are remote booting from Digital Equipment
Corporation's PathWorks for DOS; they all have ethernet cards. All
applications are executed from the fileserver. 
  Our improved setup will need remote boot capability, ability to execute
applications from a fileserver, and the ability to print to various
printers. A laser printer will have a debit card mechanism attached, so
the ability for a individual to control their print request is essential.
  Has anyone done a comparison between Novell and DEC's PathWorks? Any 
help would be appreciated.

James Yee
Univeristy of Houston, Academic Systems
Internet: jwy@uh.edu
Voice: (713) 743-1573
From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Capturing UUencoded Files
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:09:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: ddsw1.Bw2I8o.F4C
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski) wrote in
<1992Oct10.204908.7495@iscsvax.uni.edu>:

G> In article <718348739.3@mailbox.bison.mb>,
G> George.Frizzell@mailbox.bison.mb.ca (George Frizzell) writes:

F>    Anytime I've tried that I've occasionally encountered problems with
F> the loss of a few characters during the system pause/save to disk
F> operation.  Did you ever have that problem with large files?

My experiences have been as follows: most hosts time out on Xoff and start
sending again after a certain duration, whether they've received Xon or not.
Terminal programs that autosave only when their buffers fill up completely
fall prey to that.

BobsTermPro in disk capture mode stopped and saved every 254 characters.  The
incoming text on the screen paused often, but at 1200 bps it didn't lose a
character because it could write a block to disk and send Xon before the host
lost patience.  I don't remember ever trying it at 2400.

Back to Steve Gobeski:

G> To be honest, the buffer->disk solution was only meant to address the
G> problem with capturing large files.  Come to think of it, a buffer->disk
G> setup with a *double buffer* would probably not lose a single byte.  Of
G> course, I doubt there are any terminal programs with two RAM buffers.

Dialogue 128 can be configured to use multiple buffers, but I don't know
enough about its scripting language to know whether it can be told to save
one buffer to disk while capturing text into another or to sense in a script
when a buffer has filled.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: The End of RUN
Date: 17 Oct 92 00:52:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92290.205218JBK4
 <1bivogINNul@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Oct15.190348.4562@usl.edu>
 <1blmfvINN25k@gap.caltech.edu> <HERMIT.92Oct16150145@am.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Penn State University

New drives ahead of MAC and AMIGA.  NOT!  Floptical drives are already
available that allow storage of up to 20 megs on a single 3.5" disk.
1.76 Meg 3.5" drives are built by commodore and 4 megs ones are on the way.
What is CMD charging for these things?  High tech stuff for 64s tends to be
expensive, the hard drives are outrageous.

It is nice to know though that CMD is still with the 64/128 market.  Even
though it is dwindling due to higher platform competition here, the 64/128
market is growing in Eastern European nations that once had no access to
such products.  64s are inexpensive computers within their grasps.

Jason K.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: nevs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
Subject: Re: Help! C64 acting very strange! (double text)
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:44:32 GMT


I don't have the circuit plan nearby,but i agree with your
friend.The PLA could be damaged,i guess not the VIC.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: Re: Viruses for the 64
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: tub
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:45:05 GMT

Some days ago a discussion about viruses on the C=64/128 had been going on
in this newsgroup. While I do agree that a virus with any but a very limited
distribution potential seems impossible in the C64 and C128's native OS, I
wonder why nobody has pointed out the possibility of viruses under the
GEOS OS. 
Unlike the native OS GEOS is not ROM based but makes intensive use of disk
access. What makes GEOS even more vulnerable IMO is the fact that users
(unless they have a RAM disk) are required to constantly keep their working
disks' write protection off because of swap files etc.
I do not have any specific experience in programming under GEOS (nor in
programming viruses under other systems) and I only have a limited
klowledge about GEOS' file stucture, its sequence of launching applications
etc. However I could imagine a virus working roughly like this:
If the virus program is started (e.g. by launching an infected application)
it looks on the accessible disks for other uninfected executable files.
Assuming it is able to locate one it copies its code (which I could image
needn't be too long since the virus could make use of all of GEOS' kernel
routines) on some free sectors on that disk and relinks the starting pointers
of the attacked file (this is where I lack the necessary specific knowledge
of GEOS' internal structure). 
After allocating the additional blocks in the BAM the virus has now finished
its copying process. It could then, after checking for some trigger condition
(e.g. system clock or date) either pass over to the original application
or start the (destructive?) task it was designed for.
This is just a very rough draft of how I could image a virus working under
GEOS. I would be interested what some GEOS "experts" think of this. Is
this realistic? Should GEOS users get more cautious about a possible virus
threat (even if it would probably be relatively primitive viruses in comparison
to what is going on on other systems)?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: bbs-jwelch@jwt.UUCP (Johnathon Welch)
Subject: Re: Epyx Fast Load Query
Reply-To: bbs-jwelch@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:00:06 GMT

bz498@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Henry C Kessler III) writes:

> 
> I happened across a box full of Commodore stuff at a garge sale, and
> found an Epyx Fast Load Cartridge.  The only thing is, there is no
> documentation for it.  Could some one please help me with the wedge
> commands.  I know the $ command, and that is it.  Thanks
> 
> -- 
> H C Kessler III             | bz498@cleveland.freenet.edu
> ============================================================
> Spelling errrors due to a gremlin living in my computer!!!!!


Its very simple.. All the stuff that you need to know is in your disk 
drive manual...  HERES A BASIC RUNDOWN:

$ = Directory
/program = Load "program",8
%program = Load "program",8,1
! = Enter ML editor
(English Pound) = Enter the file menu
@r:program2=program1 = rename
@v = validate
@i = initalize
@n:disk,id = format

So basicly.. 

If I wanted to format a disk the old way, 
Open 15,8,15,"n:disk,id":close 15

The new way:

@n:disk,id

Thats all you need to know really is that @ is the same as Open 
15,8,15,"(command)":close 15

Oh and one more thing.. If you disable the fastload (This is needed on a 
few programs that dont support it, such as zipcode 2.0) with the british 
pound symbol or with sys64738, you can reset the fastload with sys57194.. 
this saves wear on your on/off switch!

If you nee any more help just let me know

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From: George.Frizzell@mailbox.bison.mb.ca (George Frizzell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: CP/M Cartridge
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:11:26 CST

 
Quoting Brent Busby: 
====================> 
 
I'll give you mine which includes the manual, original box, and CP/M v2.2
disk 
for $15.  Where are you?  I'm in the United States; Pekin, Illinois. 
===================== 
   
Hi Brent, 
   If William decides to pass on that, I'd be interested.  Just let me know 
and send along your mailing address if he doesn't want it, okay? 
   Talk to you later. 
  
  
- George 
 
 * Origin: Cafe De La Regence, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (1:348/703)
From: duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Zmodem
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:21:30 EDT
Organization: Pembroke State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: pembvax1.pembroke.edu

In article <1992Oct12.134141.14116@ousrvr.oulu.fi>, weasel@rieska.oulu.fi (Kari T. Salmela) writes:
> Well I can arrange a mailing list if one is needed, I'm sysadm
> of rieska.oulu.fi (Sparc 470).. Just mail me the names.
> 
> --
> -- Kari Salmela                          I "What's the favourite song
> -- Virkakatu 8 E 18 90570 Oulu FINLAND   I of SUN system admistrator?"
> -- +358 81 5546 275                      I "Don't let the Sun go down on me"
> -- also (2:228/500.3) on Fidonet	 I by Elton John and George Michael
> 

It seems that a lot of people haven't noticed my post about the Zmodem mailing
list I set up... Right now I'm running it in batch at 2:00 every morning (and
ocassionally when I login)... However, if ya'll want it can be moved to a
"true" mail-server.  Lemme know.

Also, any of you who are interested, send me mail @ duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
requesting to be added to the list. All incoming mail of mine w/ the subject
line of "ZMODEM" willl automatically be sent out in the batch at 2:00 in the
morning. Thus, you may wish to use "Z-MODEM" or some-such. Also it searches for
"ZMODEM" so it can be a "RE: ZMODEM" etc.... and it'll flag it.

(BTW, a quick note about the mail-server for C= Hacking. Multiple commands can
be entered in the same message. )

Many thanks,

-- 

- Craig Taylor   || Standard Disclaimer Applies (of course!)
duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu (Pembroke State University)
                ||| PEROT for president '92!! |||

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