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Zenith Supersport ZWL-184-97 Laptop


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As some of you may know I collect and restore vintage laptops so thought I would share some of them here. Starting with the Zenith Supersport ZWL-184-97, this one is a British Telecom branded version from 1987 or so

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Original Specs

1 Floppy Drive (720kB)

1 Internal 3.5" Hard Drive (20MB)

Internal 2400Baud Modem

Extended battery pack (originally lasted up to 7 hours, still working)

80C88-2 CPU at 4.77/8Mhz

640kb RAM

640x200 CGA Monochrome display (Blue/White)

Full Size Keyboard

The HDD is dead and is a rare proprietory MFM/RLL one so i have removed it (reduced the weight quite a bit lol)

I replaced the floppy drive with a Gotek Floppy Emulator, the machine works with the 2.5 Mb DD floppy images supported by the gotek so a decent substitute. I have also got a 100mb Parallel zip drive working as well

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ZDS SupersPort - Service Manual.pdf

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