Zenith Data Systems
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Zenith Data Systems Corporation was an American computer systems manufacturing company active from 1979 to 1996. It was originally a division of the Zenith Radio Company, after that company purchased
Top: Logo used from 1990 to 1996 Bottom: Site of former headquarters in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, from 1990 to 1996
The Zenith Data Systems Z-19 CRT-display terminal
Zenith's Z-171 portable computer, based on the Morrow Pivot II, made headlines when it beat IBM for a contract with the IRS in 1986.
Zenith's ZP-150, released in 1984, was one among the first wave of laptop computers.
Zenith SupersPort
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The SupersPort is a line of IBM PC compatible laptops manufactured by Zenith Data Systems and sold from 1988 to 1993. The first two main entries in the SupersPort line included either an Intel 80286 m
Zenith Data Systems
…contract with the Internal Revenue Service to supply a portable computer. By the mid-1980s ZDS's profits offset losses in Zenith's television sales. Its Zenith SupersPort laptop was released in 1988 to high demand, composing a quarter of the entire American laptop market that year. The company reached a peak in terms of…
Zenith SupersPort, 8088 model
The keyboard of the SupersPort (386SX model pictured – see § Later models)
Zenith SupersPort SX, lid closed