Now that Philips NV has acquired Great Neck, New York personal computer supplier Headstart Technologies Co, the latter is phasing out the machines it imports from South Korea and will in future source its personal computers from Philips’ plant in Montreal, Quebec – the old Micom Systems Inc plant: more than 80% of the Philips Canada output of 500,000 machines a year currently goes to Europe, but the plan is for 50% to go into the North American market following the Headstart acquisition: launched only in Canada so far are a new laptop, the LTP3230, with a black-on-white VGA screen, a 12.5MHz 80286 processor with 40Mb hard drive, 3.5 floppy and XT half-slot at about $6,150; a 20MHz 80386-based P3350 with 2Mb memory and five slots, at $4,315; and a 33MHz 80386 tower machine with 4Mb and 10 slots, which will sell for about $10,100; the company is also launching its Unix machines and Megadoc optical disk-based office file system in North America.
