New on the North Star Horizon: 18Mb !

Horizon Computer with 64K RAM and dual quad capacity (720kb) floppy disks

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Up to four 18Mb Winchester - Display terminal Letter -quality or dot Horizon I/O flexibility type hard disk drives matrix printer allows expansion to meet your needs

Unsurpassed Performance and Capacity! of the high -performance characteristics of the drive. Our North Star now gives you hard disk capacity and process- hard disk implements a powerful file ing performance never before possible at such a low system as well as backup and recovery on floppy diskette. price! Horizon is a proven, reliable, affordable computer system with unique hardware and software. Now the Software Is The Key! Horizon's capabilities are expanded to meet your growing The Horizon's success to date has been built on the qual- system requirements. In addition to hard disk perform- ity of its system software (BASIC, DOS, PASCAL) and ance, the Horizon has I/O versatility and an optional hard- the very broad range and availability of application soft- ware floating point board for high -performance number ware. This reputation continues with our new hard disk crunching. The North Star large disk is a Century Data system. Existing software is upward compatible for use Marksman, a Winchester -type drive that holds 18 million with the hard disk system. And, with the dramatic increase bytes of formatted data. The North Star controller inter- in on -line storage and speed, there will be a continually faces the drive(s) to the Horizon and takes full advantage expanding library of readily available application software. For more information, see your North Star dealer!

HORIZON -HD -18 SYS-1N Horizon computer with 64K Complete Horizon HD -18 plus RAM, 2 quad capacity mini 80 x 24 display terminal and drives and one HDS-18 hard NEC Spinwriter printer $13,239 disk drive $9329 NorIhSIat HDS -18 SYS-1A , Inc. Additional 18Mb hard disk drive Complete Horizon HD -18 with 1440 Fourth St. for expansion of Horizon HD -18, 80 x 24 display terminal and or your present Horizon $4999 Anadex printer $11,319 Berkeley, CA 94710 (415) 527 -6950 TWX /Telex 910 -366 -7001

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