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Sounds like the Z-286. The US Air Force bought lots of these.

A diagram that shows the backplane: https://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/m/U-Z/34130.htm

Sales brochure: https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2...



Prior to the Z-286 line Zenith made a line of PC compatibles with an 8 slot 8-bit ISA backplane design, the Z-150 desktop and Z-160 transportable. The backplane board lacks the RTC and keyboard connection of the Z-286 backplane board and is therefore completely free of active components.


Yep, I think it was. I do remember the VGA card being plugged into that small slot at the top.

I still have the "chipset" card because it's super interesting to have something to show that a PC chipset was actual physical chips at some point.




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