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The perfect personal computer is as elusive as the perfect boat, the perfect house, and the perfect car and for much the same reasons; whereas you might want a limousine at night, a pickup truck might be handier the next morning.

There may be a solution, or actually two. Morrow, the small and stable San Leandro, Calif. computer manufacturer, working in conjunction with industrial giant Zenith Data Systems, has produced what may be the closest thing yet to the perfect, all-purpose business computer.

Morrow, the firm founded by industry pioneer George Morrow, calls it the Pivot II, puts it in a black case and gives it a white screen. Zenith calls its version the Z-171 PC, colors it beige and provides a pale blue screen.

Even though it is not a briefcase model, it really is portable. Equipped with a stout strap, its 15 pounds of self-contained processing power swings easily enough from your shoulder that you could routinely carry it to and from the office and on all your trips.

Unlike the smaller, lighter briefcase portables, most of which now sport flip-up screens, the Pivot II/Z-171 PC has a flip-down keyboard, while the 9 1/2-inch-wide by 4 1/2-inch-deep screen remains in its near-vertical position at a comfortable eye level a couple of inches above the keyboard.

The screen combines a liquid crystal display (LCD) of 80 columns by 25 lines, back lit with an electroluminescent panel that glows light blue or white, depending on whether you buy the Zenith or the Morrow version. The result is a screen that can be read easily in any light level, unlike standard LCD screens, which are all but invisible unless you have good light falling on them from over your shoulder.

The world map is used to display time zones moving either west with the F7 key or east with F8. Each zone is graphically indicated on the map; several large cities within it are listed and the current time and date are shown.

Below the function keys are four special keys marked by symbols--a clock, telephone, diskette and math symbols. They are used, respectively, to bring to the screen the clock-calendar-map display, a telephone directory, contents of a disk, and a calculator.

The calculator allows you to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers of up to 16 digits. It uses a group of keys on the right side of the keyboard that are dedicated to the purpose with the press of a special key.

There are even some advantages. You can invoke the embedded numeric keypad keys without disturbing the cursor keys, which are stretched out in a row at the right side of the space bar. That makes it much easier to make spreadsheet entries than is possible on the standard IBM keyboard where you either have number keys or cursor keys but not both.

Once past these enhancements and differences, the PZ is operationally just like any standard PC. Put your standard PC disks into the narrow drives mounted vertically on the right end of the computer and they run just fine, graphics and all.

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