{"id":730,"date":"2011-01-10T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2012-12-20T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:29:21","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-st-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/730\/retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-st-hard-drive","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> ICD Atari ST Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_st_icd_hard_drive_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_st_icd_hard_drive_small.jpg\" alt=\"ICD FA-ST FAST FA20ST Hard Drive for Atari ST 1040ST Ad - 1988\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Refresh Your Memory.  And Keep Your Cool.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently ran across this ad for the ICD FA-ST Atari ST hard drive system in a 1988 issue of STart magazine that my wife&#8217;s uncle gave me.  He was quite an ST fan himself back in the day, and I was the lucky recipient of his ST collection last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to an ICD catalog I have, the 20 megabyte model of this HD system (the FA20ST, seen here) retailed for US $699.95 in 1988 ($1,294.60 in 2010 dollars).  The highest end model( FA52ST), which included two 50 megabyte drives, sold for $1649.95 (or $3,051.68 in 2010 dollars).<\/p>\n<p>Those steep prices (common for all hard disks at the time), along with the small market size of Atari 16-bit owners in the US, made drives such as these quite rare.  I&#8217;ve never seen one in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From STart, Summer 1988, p.9 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Do you own hard drive systems for any of your vintage, non-IBM PC compatible computers?  Tell us about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Refresh Your Memory. And Keep Your Cool.&#8221; I recently ran across this ad for the ICD FA-ST Atari ST hard drive system in a 1988 issue of STart magazine that my wife&#8217;s uncle gave me. He was quite an ST fan himself back in the day, and I was the lucky recipient of his ST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}