Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) was a division of Zenith founded in 1979. This laptop was given to the college on June 11, 2007. It was used by Marna Montgomery to write minutes of school board meetings in 1998 and 1999. The ZDS laptop contains an 80386SL microprocessor. It is built with a miniature 2.5-inch hard disk drive and contains 2M of memory. This laptop operates under either AC or battery power. It provides approximately three hours of battery-powered computing with each rechargeable battery pack.
The laptop also offers all the functions and features of a full-size keyboard. The Zenith data Systems laptop reads data from 3.5-inch 1.4MB and 720K floppy disks. It outputs video information to either the built-in 640 x 480 pixel LCD display, or a VGA-type external video monitor.
This laptop also provides connectors for serial and parallel peripherals. It supports a standard serial mouse and provides an auxilliary connector for an external keyboard or pointing device.
Reference: ZDS User's Guide.