Picked up an old Zenith Z-200 series desktop machine not long ago. Go it booting up and loading into MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.

I had one of these when I was a kid. Pretty sure we got it from the US Navy since they had tons of these things. It’s a beast of a machine and 38 or 39 years it’s still alive and kicking.

Right now it’s equipped with an 80286 Running at the stock 8.01 MHz with an 80287 Math chip. It also has a full 640K (should be enough for anyone) base memory snd 2.5 meg of expanded memory from 2 Zenith memory boards I have installed.

For storage I’m running XT IDE on en EPROM stuffed into a Linksys Ether16 card paired up with a generic HMC based IDE controller with a 4 GB Compact Flash card in one of the expansion slots. It does have an ST-225 and WD1002-WA1 MFM controller but I’m not using that right now and it’s more for looks.

I’m currently looking for a 486 upgrade board for this if anyone knows where one might be. I think it was the ZFLEZ-6 or something like that.

Anyway I always had a soft spot for these machines and figured I’d share this one. It really is quite the machine even for its age.