Posted on 04/19/2016 1:26:22 PM PDT by daniel1212
THE Headstart Technologies Company of Great Neck, L.I., has introduced two new personal computers equipped with CD-ROM drives, becoming the first maker of personal computers to offer low-cost CD-ROM technology to the home, education and small-business markets...
CD-ROM stands for compact disk read only memory, a laser-based system of storing and replaying large amounts of text, graphics or sound on a single five-inch platter. For example, one CD-ROM disk can hold the entire contents of an encyclopedia, or a shelf's worth of other reference books.
For $2,999, Headstart is offering the Headstart III-CD, which differs from the LX-CD in that it has a more powerful 80286 microprocessor, one megabyte of working memory and a pocket-size external 2,400-baud modem.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
One of our users bought machines with 28 meg of RAM, hoping to overcome the memory issues he was having with Windows 3.1. I tried to convince him that Windows couldn’t even use that much RAM. He was convinced that more RAM would overcome the Windows limited resource issues.
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