{"id":747,"date":"2011-02-28T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-02-28T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:04:01","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-percom-atari-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/747\/retro-scan-of-the-week-percom-atari-drives","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Percom Atari Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/percom_atari_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/percom_atari_small.jpg\" alt=\"Percom Atari 800 Disk Drives RFD Mini Disk Storage System Ad - 1982\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Introducing the Percom Alternative to Atari Disk Storage.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have a set of these Percom drives for the Atari 800, and I have to say they work very well.  The only drawback? Don&#8217;t drop them on your toe, as the sharp metal case edges tend to have a guillotine effect at high speeds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Computing, June 1982, p.23 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever been physically injured by a computer or video game system?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Introducing the Percom Alternative to Atari Disk Storage.&#8221; I have a set of these Percom drives for the Atari 800, and I have to say they work very well. The only drawback? Don&#8217;t drop them on your toe, as the sharp metal case edges tend to have a guillotine effect at high speeds&#8230; [ From [&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-747","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\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}