Intertec HeadStart

The HeadStart had two models. HeadStart VPU and HeadStart ATS. The VPU was an impressive machine. It was a portable or a desktop machine. Notice the picture has a smaller keyboard that snapped on the front bezel and a handle on the back. No customers ordered the portable version. The VPU had a Z-80 and an 8086 and could support up to 1MB RAM. Inside the computer consisted of three circuit boards. Two (over the top of the CRT) was the processor and the RAM. The 1MB RAM took up a whole board. The unit had a 3½" diskette drive that read Intertec's proprietary formats. The machine could convert CP/M 2.2 format and MS-DOS 2.1 format data. The machine had a coaxial network board (proprietary protocols) that connected one of two server machines. A 10/20MB and a 50 MB.