{"id":1131,"date":"2015-06-08T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1131\/retro-scan-of-the-week-xcomp-toaster"},"modified":"2015-06-08T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:36:40","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-xcomp-toaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1131\/retro-scan-of-the-week-xcomp-toaster","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Toaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/xcomp_toaster_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/xcomp_toaster_large.jpg\" alt=\"Sega Interactive Comics Sega Electronic Comics Batman Popular Science What's New - April 1995\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>It burns your disks<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know nothing about this dual removable hard disk device &#8212; called &#8220;The Toaster&#8221; &#8212; by XCOMP.  The only time I&#8217;ve ever seen it is in this ad.  But judging by the lightning, it was completely awesome.<\/p>\n<p>It was also completely expensive &#8212; about US $6,639.50 when adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Byte, February 1983, p.60]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever used a removable hard disk system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It burns your disks I know nothing about this dual removable hard disk device &#8212; called &#8220;The Toaster&#8221; &#8212; by XCOMP. The only time I&#8217;ve ever seen it is in this ad. But judging by the lightning, it was completely awesome. It was also completely expensive &#8212; about US $6,639.50 when adjusted for inflation. [ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[139,150,113,1121,1119,1120,60,1118,1117],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-byte","tag-lightning","tag-removable-hard-disk","tag-removable-media","tag-retro-scan","tag-the-toaster","tag-xcomp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}