Bernoulli / IOmega ** 8" ** Drives ... Any user / owner on this Forum ???

[Gerardcjat]

Almost All is in the title ....

Then ...
Who own and "may be" ;-) use one ??
How difficult ( and expensive ? ) is it to get the 8" specific cartridges ??

 

[acollins22]

I used these years ago on a PC. When they were scrapped from work I got a pair of SCSI ones working on an Atari ST but it's a very long time ago.

Good luck if you get some.

Cheers,

Andy.

 

[mbbrutman]

I have a 10MB and a 20MB version of the 8" Bernoulli Boxes. Pretty much everything was acquired on eBay. While not common, they were also not impossible to find.

This page might be interesting to you:

http://www.brutman.com/Bernoulli_Box/Bernoulli_Box_A220H.html

 

[Gerardcjat]

hey ! Very nice page ! Thanks for it Mr Brutman.
I learned that this drive can WRITE only 20 Mb medium and ...
"To be more accurate, 20MB cartridges are nearly impossible to find."
That's not good news ...
BTW : quote "I came across this A220H last summer in bad shape" ... reader has to go to the bottom of the page to assume (?) that it was Summer 2010 ;-)

 

[mbbrutman]

That's why I date the pages ... so it is clear about what "last summer" means.

The 20MB drives can read, but not write the 10MB cartridges. And since that time, I was able to find more 20MB cartridges. They do show up from time to time so don't be discouraged.

You also need the controller card. The device is mostly SCSI but it uses 256 byte sectors instead of the usual 512 byte sectors. I have not experimented trying to drive it with a generic SCSI card. Just use the Iomega controller card and the Iomega software to keep things easy.

I've done some data recovery for people since then too. The most interesting set of carts had studio music tracks for some well known artists; the 8" Bernoulli boxes were used in some recording equipment for removable digital storage.

 

[mbbrutman]

I just stumbled across this auction on our own VC Marketplace:

http://marketplace.vintage-computer.com/listing/pc-lab-sale/116059

There is what looks like a later model Bernoulli Box with two 20MB 8" cartridges and an 80MB internal hard drive attached to a Compaq. I didn't know such things existed. There is also a dual 44MB unit in the lot too.

 

[Gerardcjat]

Many thanks.
Seems interesting. I will contact this guy, BUT, he mention : "Must pickup, Boulder, Colorado" and ...
I am located in Paris, France :-(
We will see ....

 

[alfadb4004]

I have both the 8" 10mb and 20mb carts, and the drive cleaning kits. I am in the middle of refurbishing a couple of Alpha drives.

 

[tradde]

You posted to a post that is over 6 years old.