11 Apr
2001
11 Apr
'01
9:30 a.m.
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(a)bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)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.