Wanted: tech docs on original Iomega 8-inch full height 10MB Bernoulli drive (Alpha-10)

Eric Smith spacewar at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 11:34:29 CDT 2018


Does anyone have the user, technical and/or service manual for the original
10MB Iomega Bernoulli drives? Bitsavers has the manuals for the later
half-height 10.0/10.5 MB "Alpha-10H", but I'm looking for docs for the
original model, which was full-height with a SASI (pre-SCSI) interface.

I have the drives, about 20 cartridges that I want to image, and some
additional scratch cartridges.

I've never used Bernoulli drives before. These drives and cartridges were
last used around 1986. I'll disconnect and test the power supply before
powering up the actual drives, but is there anything else I should be
concerned with?

Does anyone have known-working 8-inch Bernoulli drives?


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