Iomega Bernoulli Box 20+20 (A220H) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Jul 2010

...
  The same with MO drives probably holds.  I may still
have a Pinnacle 
 Apex 4.3GB drive here somewhere.  In addition to being somewhat 
 delicate, it was very expensive when compared to a standard IDE 
 drive.
 I don't consider the later cheap removable-media drives like Zip, 
 Jaz, Sparq... to be in the same reliability category as the 
 Bernoullis.  It's a shame that the technology was abandoned. 
MO drives still have a few holdouts, in the worlds radiology and graphic arts. But CD-R
and DVD-R have come to dominate even in those holdout areas.

In the radiology world variants on the RT-11 filesystem are still found today on MO
drives, although the data hasn't passed through a real PDP-11 in decades.

Tim.