New Z-100 archive!

SomeGuy

User ECNeilson over at the Vintage Computing Forums has shared a large archive of manuals and software for the Zenith Z-100 computer.

http://planemo.org/retro/downloads/z100/

The Zenith Z-100 is a non-IBM hardware compatible computer that features an 8085 (8-bit) and 8088 CPU, S-100 expansion bus, and video resolutions up to 640*400 in 8 colors.

Among the interesting items are Peachtext 5000 for Z-100, Worstar for Z-100, Lotus 1-2-3 for Z-100, and a Z-100 specific version of Windows 1.01 (The Zenith OEM currently on Winworld is for IBM PC comptaible Z-150s or later)

Unfortunately, instead of just sticking the disks in a 360k drive on a tweener PC and running ImageDisk, he apparently downloaded the individual files over a serial port :shock: This sadly means the boot disks are just unusable file sets, and all of the time stamps are wrong.

Since I am thinking about it, here are a couple of other Z-100 archives:

http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~mcalhoun/Z-100/

http://www.z80cpu.eu/files/archive/rlee/Z/ZENITH-100/

http://www.computernostalgie.site90.net ... /index.htm (good disk images, ignore the annoying pop-over)

http://www.pestingers.net/Pages_images/ ... 00_man.htm (Some good manuals)

SomeGuy

Incidentally, that copy Z-100 version of Windows 1 has a Windows 1.x compatible version of the "Puzzle" application. That was included with Beta versions of Windows 1, but I don't think I had seen one for Windows 1 anywhere else before.