1 Jul
2010
1 Jul
'10
9:29 a.m.
On 6/30/10 9:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I like the old Bernoulli boxes very much. Because of
the physics of
the thing (Bernoulli's principle), the disks were pretty much
uncrashable.
...
Great stuff and very much unlike the Zip and Jaz
abominations.
Agreed 100%. I used Bernoulli drives for years, the 10+10 and 20+20
eight-inchers both at home and at work, and then the 5.25" drives
(mainly 44MB) at work. The latter are standard generic SCSI and seemed
to be compatible with pretty much everything. I've seen ONE lose data,
once, due to physical contamination. Otherwise they were extremely
reliable.
For a time about ten years ago, the 5.25" Bernoulli drives were
appearing at scrappers by the hundreds. I really regret not having
grabbed a drive or two. They'd be very handy now for PDP-11 hacking.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL