1 Jul
2010
1 Jul
'10
12:15 p.m.
On 1 Jul 2010 at 13:33, Teo Zenios wrote:
Zip, Jazz, and Sparc do not seem as rugged as the
Syquest 44/88MB
carts I do have (they look like HD platters). Were the Bernouli 5.25"
some kind of super flexible floppy?
A non-contact floppy, yes. The Bernoulli effect creates a thin, but
stable gap. Without bothering to grab a cartridge, I seem to
remember that Bernoulli media was hard-sectored as well.
On the subject of interesting applications of the Bernoulli effect, I
found this paper on a wall-climbing robot that uses the effect to
cling to a vertical surface:
http://tinyurl.com/23gw54e
--Chuck