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Pacific Northwest Vintage Zenith Data Systems Z-Star 433VL with DOS and Hard Drive

Covers: Oregon and Washington
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retrowriter

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For sale is a vintage Zenith Z-Star 433vl laptop computer with a black-and-white LCD display. The video card supports color graphics if you use an external monitor, though. It powers on and boots to DOS. However, it has some blown capacitors that start to stink if you leave the computer on too long. Since I'd rather not see it go to waste, I'm repairing the computer. I have removed the blown capacitors, and I'm waiting to receive replacements right now. However, in the meantime I'd like to know if anyone wants to buy the parts from me instead:
  • LCD panel
  • 200mb Seagate hard drive
  • Case
  • Keyboard (the up and left keys don't work)
  • RAM chips (these have a special design for Z-Star laptops)
  • Dead battery (the battery has a rubber foot on the bottom, so your laptop will wobble without the foot)
  • Floppy drive
  • Main board
  • Power board (I am replacing capacitors on it right now though)
  • Power adapter unit
If you have a Packard Bell Statesman that needs parts, these should be compatible.

Please make me an offer. I can ship to you in the domestic United States, or let you pick it up locally in Seattle, zip code 98103. I'll post more information as I finish the capacitor repair and test the computer.
 

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We had one of these machines, the Packard Bell model, on sale as display unit when I worked for Best Buy from 93-96. It never did sell. Wonder what happened to it lol.
 
@twolazy This was my first laptop back in the late 1990's. I think it came from the surplus bin at Vanderbilt University. It was good for learning the Basic programming language, but I didn't do anything more advanced with it.
 
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