IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon Mar 19 11:19:29 2001

I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card.
>From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface.

In a message dated 3/19/01 11:16:40 AM Central Standard Time,
jhellige_at_earthlink.net writes:

<< Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own
 special controller prior to switching to SCSI?
 
     Jeff
 
>I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk
drives,
>the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a
>serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab
and all
>of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out
from
>the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously
>pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can
>sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the
inside of
>the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon
mark
>where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case.
>Now thats quality assurance!!! :-)
>>
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