Bernoulli drives was:Re: What is this?

From: no <oliv555_at_arrl.net>
Date: Mon Jul 8 11:15:59 2002

Curt Vendel wrote:
> Sounds like the good old original Bournelli Box data cartridges.... first
> removal hard drives for PC's.... I remember working on those beasties....
> the original design had an issue with the power board assembly and the
> capacitors used to explode. They were packaged into IBM XT type cases and
> when the caps blew it sounded like someone hit the case with the metal
> baseball bat... when the case was opened, underneath the cover would be the
> marks where the cap blew out.... of course this "feature" was fixed in later
> versions ;-)
>
>
>
> Curt
>
  for those interested in this sort of thing...
     ... there are 3 dual bournoulli 90 drives sitting at the
290/Goodwill here in NW houston. At least 4 of the drives had cartridges
in them

-nick
Received on Mon Jul 08 2002 - 11:15:59 BST