Bernoulli

From: Evan R. Pauley <evan_at_flextech.net>
Date: Sun Jan 26 18:39:37 2003

Seth/all,

Actually, he could be looking at a 20MB drive. Iomega produced a dual 20MB
box called the Bernoulli Box II, which had two 5-1/4" 20 meg drives side by
side. I believe the 20Z that Kevin's talking about could have used the old
8" drive cartridges, which Iomega also made about 1987 or so to replace the
original Bernoulli 10MB unit. The 20Z had two 8" drives arranged
vertically, if memory serves.

The SCSI interface was either bootable (a 50B card, I believe) or
non-bootable (a 50 card). I think I still have the manuals and driver disks
as well, on 5-1/4" floppies ONLY. If you need them, let me know ASAP and
I'll dig through the archives. I'm certain I still have a couple of the
interface cards as well.

I also still have the old BBII, with manuals and interface card. I think I
also have an internal 150MB IDE (which reads the 90MB cartridges) and I'm
sitting here looking at four of the 5-1/4" 20MB packs and one of the 150's
on my shelf. Last I tried them (about five years ago), they both still
worked fine.

BTW -- my first post. Been lurking for a few weeks...good stuff here!

Cheers,
Evan Pauley


-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Seth Lewin
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:39 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Bernoulli



> Message: 16
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:05:11 -0700
> From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
> To: cctalk <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Bernoulli Dual 20Z
> Reply-To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>
> I found a Bernoulli Dual 20Z drive in a thrift shop.
> Does anyone know anything about it?
>
> It has a SCSI interface on it, but I don't even know
> what capacity of disks it can handle, and where can
> I find software to drive it.
>
> They has some "90" disks there too, which do fit
> into the drive, but I'd like more info on it than that

The one Bernoulli I once owned used 90mb cartridges, which is probably what
you're looking at, Kevin. Bernoullis were more or less predecessors of Zip
drives, technologically speaking. I may have a Mac SCSI driver around here
somewhere for these things or you might try the Iomega website.

SML
Received on Sun Jan 26 2003 - 18:39:37 GMT