But that leaves a bunch of S-100 systems, some Heath/Zenith systems, brands like Victor and God-knows how many others, who produced those semi-compatible systems, which were soon abandoned. Now, S-100, I can deal with and those catch some people's interest. In fact there's a lot of 3rd party PC hardware for the Heath/zenith Z-100 (Z-120 series). But Zenith 150-series systems, with five boards in some super-ISA backplane? Forgedabotit. I show some of the Zenith 151-s on my Web site, and of course Z-100's; so I get inquiries, like today, where someone has a Z-151 to offer. I tell them "sorry, no one cares". Comments? Herb Johnson
It's all about the entertaining youtube videos to drive interest in specific systems I'd guess? The more exposure younger collectors get to the rare platforms that aren't documented well on the internet -- the more the interest will go up. I remember finding a Zenith something or other at a thrift store that was close to DOS compatible but not fully. Had it's own DOS fork and there was a program to let it run some dos apps (not games.) - Ethan