Template:Did you know nominations/Zenith Eazy PC

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:50, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Zenith Eazy PC

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... that one computer reviewer considered the optional $399 expansion module for the Zenith Eazy PC necessary for it to be useful at all? Source: "For a serial port you'll need Zenith's $399 memory/modem/serial port add-on module" (Perdue 1987, p. 76); "Add the memory/modem/serial port module that we consider a requirement, and you've got a list price for a dual-floppy machine of just under $1,600" (p. 80).
- ALT1:... that Zenith equipped the floppy-only models of the Eazy PC with power supplies too weak to accommodate an aftermarket hard drive? Source: "The power supply delievered with Models 1 and 2 is not beefy enough to support a hard disk" (Hummel 1987, p. 35.).

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 02:17, 21 September 2021 (UTC).

Hi and welcome to DYK! Using QPQCheck, it looks like this is your first nomination, so no QPQ is required. My review will be focused on stating if your page fulfills the DYK review criteria. The page is new enough and long enough. It was created on September 16th. The in-line citations support the text. Earwig's copvio detector was down, so I spot-checked a few places for close paraphrasing and I did not find any copyvio problems. The article is neutral.

There are two possible Original Research issues that I noticed:

The cited article doesn't mention the computer specifically being incompatible with the 8087, but it does mention that it is incompatible with any expansions
"implying the machine was not fully IBM PC compatible" this isn't stated in the original article as far as I can tell

The hooks:

The provided hooks are interesting enough. The information in the first hook isn't present in the body of the Wikipedia page. The information in the second hook is, and it is supported by an in-line citation.

For this nomination to pass, you'll need to remove the original research (or show me part of the cited text that supports that information) and work the information from the first hook into the body of the page. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Rachel! Re "The cited article doesn't mention the computer specifically being incompatible with the 8087": Perdue 1987 at the end of p. 76 states "It seems almost anticlimactic to mention it, but the Eazy PC also has no slot for a math coprocessor"—I added a citation to Hummel 1987 which namedrops the 8087 specifically. "implying the machine was not fully IBM PC compatible": Perdue writes in the summary box on p. 76 that the Zenith PC had "some compatibility problems"—rephrased the sentence to be more accurate. "The information in the first hook isn't present in the body of the Wikipedia page.": the "$399 expansion module" is in reference to the memory–serial–modem module. Since there were two modules offered I suppose it would be more helpful to insert "memory–serial–modem" into ALT0 but then it sounds a little wordy. DigitalIceAge (talk) 21:02, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for responding to my concerns. You don't need to put "memory-serial-modem" in the hook, and I see the supporting info in the body of the Wikipedia page now. Thank you for clarifying that. I approve the nomination. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:40, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

~~Modified~~ dumbed down ALT0 to T:DYK/P5