 
 ICD, Incorporated                Telephone    (815) 968-2228
 1220 Rock Street                 Facsimile    (815) 968-6888
 Rockford, IL  61101  USA         Sales        (815) 968-8550
 
 Press Release:  For Immediate Release
 
                          The LINK(TM)
 An all new external SCSI host adapter for Atari ST computers
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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."
 
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.
 
For further information, contact Thomas Harker at ICD in the
United States by phone (815) 968-2228 extension 120 or fax
(815) 968-6888.
 
The Link is a trademark of ICD, Incorporated.
Other trademarks are those of their respective holders.
