Bernoulli Box controller?

Rich Alderson RichA at vulcan.com
Fri Aug 15 16:36:57 CDT 2008


From: Eric Smith
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:52 AM

> Rich Alderson wrote:
>> The original Macintosh-compatible Bernoulli Box hooked to the
>> external floppy interface, and was available in 10MB and 20MB.

> I never saw one that hooked to the floppy interface, but it's
> certainly possible.

Several of us at the UofChicago Comp Center bought 128K Macs when
they came out.  One of the other people in the systems programming
group bought a Mac Bernoulli Box as soon as it was announced.

It was definitely the external floppy port.

>> SCSI didn't come to the Mac until the SE, as I remember things.

> SCSI appeared on the Macintosh Plus, introduced in early 1986.
> The SE was introduced in April 1987.

OK, thanks.

> Most of the early Iomega Bernoulli products used SASI.

Wouldn't know about that.

Rich




More information about the cctech mailing list