New find: Headstart Explorer

From: bill claussen <elecdata_at_kcinter.net>
Date: Wed Apr 11 16:30:45 2001

Mark You are correct, they did not come with cd Roms, Not any that I worked on.

Most had a 40 meg drive if I remember right or it was an 80 meg I think.

Bill Claussen
elecdata1

Mark Gregory wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:23 PM
> Subject: RE: New find: Headstart Explorer
>
> > Headstart had a cd to load it with and most people neither have the CD
> nor
> > do they have the boot floppy for the cdrom. I retored one back to factory
> > load about 3 yrs ago but I've since lost all ties with where the
> Headstart
> > links have gone.
> >
>
> Russ, are you sure we're talking about the same computer? 8088-based XT
> clone by Vendex? CD drives were pretty expensive in the mid-to-late 1980s,
> and it wasn't at all common for software to come on a CD. Additionally, I
> didn't see anything like a CD-ROM connector when I took the beast apart.
>
> Maybe you're thinking of a [Compaq,Dell,Gateway] "Headstart" program, where
> the OS and software (usually MS-Works) were pre-loaded at the factory, as
> an aid to newbies?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 16:30:45 BST