ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, March 8, 1996 TAG: 9603080077
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
NEW YORK - Personal computers can now be found in 35 percent of the nation's homes and on-line connections in 11 percent, according to a survey released Thursday.
They are most prevalent in homes where income is high and children are present, according to the biannual survey completed in January by Odyssey, a San Francisco technology research firm.
About 16 percent of homes where annual income is less than $30,000 have a PC. PCs were found in about 37 percent of homes where annual income is $30,000 to $50,000 and in 62 percent of homes where income is higher.
Among computer owners, Odyssey found that awareness about the Internet, the global public data network, grew sharply during the last six months of 1995. About 45 percent of respondents with computers knew about the Internet last July. But that figure had climbed to 73 percent in the latest survey.
It found that half of the people who access the Internet from home do so through a commercial on-line service such as America Online, CompuServe or Prodigy. That is unchanged from last July. - Associated Press Botetourt County makes it to Web
Once-rural Botetourt County is now in cyberspace. Proclaiming "Our advantages can be yours," the county went on-line Thursday with a home-page on the World Wide Web.
The computer page's purpose, according to County Administrator Jerry Burgess, is to facilitate communication with Botetourt residents and to aid in economic development.
E-mail can be sent to the county government from the web site. Also available are links to information on business parks, the county's economic development program, recreational programs and facilities and how to contact county officials.
The address for the page is http://www.infi.net/~botco - Staff report Fireworks maker coming to Radford
RADFORD - A New York fireworks company that has designed displays for a presidential inauguration and the Olympics will be setting up shop at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.
A lease signing between Fireworks by Grucci Inc. and the ammunition plant - complete with a two-minute fireworks display - is scheduled this evening. Officials from the company and the arsenal would not release details of the contract Thursday, but it long has been known that the ammunition plant was marketing its facilities to a fireworks manufacturer.
Grucci is a family-owned business with reported annual sales of several million dollars. It is based in Brookhaven, N.Y. - Staff report
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