Zenith Z-Note Flex laptop review

During the disassembly of the cabinet with a computer antiques company was detected laptop company Zenith Data systems.

History reference

Zenith Data systems was founded in 1979 and was engaged in the production of personal computers, and later laptops. She worked closely with Microsoft, computers and laptops from this company had a unique opportunity to debug the program by pressing the Ctrl + Alt + Ins combination. Absorbed by NEC in 1996.
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The laptop was found and successfully launched first in DOS, then in “Arakhnu” - some kind of window system with a mouse, based on the HTML interpreter. The next step was the launch of Windows 95, also installed on this laptop.

About laptop

1. Processor: Intel Mobile 80486SL CPU 50 MHz
2. RAM: 640 K Integrated + 3072 K Extended
3. HDD 172 MB
4. 3 1/2 ", Floppy Disk Drive (replace with second battery)
5. 10 "LCD monitor, monochrome.
6. 2x PCMCIA
7. Ports: COM, LPT, VGA, PS \ 2
8. Trackball

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Overview photo of a laptop just running. Launched the first shell, she was Arachne.



So the laptop welcomes everyone who includes it:



All laptop indicators here are displayed on a separate panel (photo during power up):



It is, in normal operation of the laptop:



Launched "Arahna" shell



Running Windows 95:



Immediately after loading the OS, it became boring, because there was no network card in the laptop, and now there is no way to find PCMCIA. So I started disassembling the laptop.

The laptop turned out to be modular, even the processor could be removed and replaced in 1 minute:







Here is the power cable connector:



Such a laptop below:



After dismantling the covers and the hard drive:



And here is the hard drive itself:



Floppy and battery:



Interestingly, the hard drive, battery and floppy had this connector:



In the notebook itself, behind the Floppy slot, there were 2 connectors, apparently for installing an additional battery:



Here is the processor module, which easily jumped out after unscrewing just 1 screw:



Even the battery for the BIOS was stuck without screws and easily got out of the backside of the laptop:




Here it is:




Both shift keys did not work in the laptop, so some basic things on the laptop could not be done. But even when you press the power key, the laptop says:



And in case of failure, it returns safely to the system.