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- ICD, Incorporated Telephone (815) 968-2228
- 1220 Rock Street Facsimile (815) 968-6888
- Rockford, IL 61101 USA Sales (815) 968-8550
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- Press Release: For Immediate Release
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- The LINK(TM)
- An all new external SCSI host adapter for Atari ST computers
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- Rockford, Illinois, July 22, 1992 -- ICD, Incorporated, a leading
- designer and manufacturer of hardware enhancements for Atari
- computers, today announced The Link, a highly integrated external
- SCSI host adapter for all Atari ST computers.
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- For the past five years ICD has enjoyed an enviable reputation as the
- world leader of interfaces connecting Atari ST computers to SCSI
- devices. Not willing to rest on its laurels, ICD is always looking
- for ways to push the envelope for data transfer rates, to use the
- latest in hardware and software technology in order to continually
- redefine state-of-the-art in the Atari ST host adapter market. This
- path has given ICD customers the fastest possible hard drives, with
- uncompromising compatibility and speed at competitive prices.
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- The Link, from ICD, allows Atari owners even more flexibility in
- their choice of hard drives. The Link is an external SCSI host
- adapter designed to plug in to a standard 50 pin centronics style
- SCSI connector. In an attractively-designed molded case measuring
- just 2.5 inches by 3 inches and less than .75 inches thick
- (63x76x19 mm), The Link will fit into most any SCSI environment. The
- Link is powered by the termination line of the target SCSI device and
- will support up to 8 SCSI devices. This allows the use of external
- SCSI drives originally designed for the Apple Macintosh, IBM PC,
- Commodore Amiga, NeXT, Atari TT and Falcon, or most other standard
- SCSI drives with Atari ST, STE, Stacy, and STBOOK computers. Just
- plug and go. Since most drives require no modifications, The Link
- won't affect the drive manufacturer's warranty.
-
- The Link, along with ICD's highly acclaimed software, also gives
- multi-platform computer owners unprecedented flexibility. If the SCSI
- drive is formatted under MS-DOS with FDISK, the user can directly read
- and write files from Atari computers under TOS using the ICD driver,
- IBM PCs running PC-DOS or MS-DOS, and Amiga computers running AmigaDOS
- 2.1 or later using the integral CrossDOS utility.
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- Thomas Harker, president of ICD, explained, "This is a real
- breakthrough in SCSI support for Atari ST computers. Not only is this
- a great value in hardware connectivity, but the software that comes
- with it is unbeatable. CD-ROMs are now supported! Since The Link
- supports extended SCSI commands we wrote MetaDOS drivers to support
- the SCSI-2 standard for CD-ROM players. Floptical drives are now
- fully supported! With the Insite Floptical drive you can read and
- write IBM-compatible floppy disks at 720K, 1.4Mb, and 21Mb
- configurations on your Atari ST computer. Magneto-optical drives are
- also supported! We now support virtually all R/W optical drives in
- the 3.5 and 5.25 inch formats."
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- The ICD Link is competitively priced and will be premiered at the
- Atari Messe in Duesseldorf, Germany in August. ICD is taking orders
- now with shipments expected in mid-August. The Link comes with a
- full one year warranty.
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- For further information, contact Thomas Harker at ICD in the
- United States by phone (815) 968-2228 extension 120 or fax
- (815) 968-6888.
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- The Link is a trademark of ICD, Incorporated.
- Other trademarks are those of their respective holders.
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