Bernoulli

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Mon Jan 27 09:27:00 2003

Evan R. Pauley wrote:

>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
>
This is the 5-1/4 unit (side by side) apparently with 20MB drives.
The 90meg 5-1/4 cartridges fit in it, but I doubt that they would
work correctly. Also 20meg is quite small any more. Well, I'll
hang onto it until I find some media to go with it, or someone who
needs it.

>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 think I found the software on iomega's site, but without media
to worrk with, I cant be sure. Since the media seems to be scarce,
it might be a while before I find any to play with.

This unit didn't come with an interface card, so I'm hoping that
a regular SCSI controller can run it.

>
>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.
>
Well, if you want the two 90meg media, I'll make you a good deal
on them. Don't have anything else to do with them.
Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 09:27:00 GMT