A little historical memoir:
The Bernoulii wasn't really all that rare and was actually a slightly better technology than Syquest's. But by being first out of the gate, Syquest's drives were adopted, nearly exclusively, at the very beginning of the "service bureau" era and the resulting economies of scale allowed Syquest to undercut Iomega's Bernoulli pricing.
The Bernoulli principal is what "gets and keeps airplanes up in the air." In the case of the Iomega Bernoulli drives, it kept the read/write heads from ever touching the surface of the lighter, more flexible media, much like the way "ground effect" sometimes makes it difficult to set a plane down onto the tarmac.
When combined with a smaller 3.5" form factor and the "Optical" indexing from "Floptical" drives: the ZIP drive was born. It was revolutionary in concept and leapfrogged Syquest's more mundane "Winchester" Disk (AKA: run of the mill hard drive platter) in a portable cartridge concept . . .
. . . and thereby blew those monopolizing, arrogant pissants at Syquest right out of the water! :lol:
more than cantankerous old coot mode>
I said memoir, because the ole'noggin isn't fully back on line as yet . . . :I . . . so feel free to contradict me!
jt: the old coot with more experience in the realm of funky peripherals than you can shake a memory stick at! :-x
The Bernoulii wasn't really all that rare and was actually a slightly better technology than Syquest's. But by being first out of the gate, Syquest's drives were adopted, nearly exclusively, at the very beginning of the "service bureau" era and the resulting economies of scale allowed Syquest to undercut Iomega's Bernoulli pricing.
The Bernoulli principal is what "gets and keeps airplanes up in the air." In the case of the Iomega Bernoulli drives, it kept the read/write heads from ever touching the surface of the lighter, more flexible media, much like the way "ground effect" sometimes makes it difficult to set a plane down onto the tarmac.
When combined with a smaller 3.5" form factor and the "Optical" indexing from "Floptical" drives: the ZIP drive was born. It was revolutionary in concept and leapfrogged Syquest's more mundane "Winchester" Disk (AKA: run of the mill hard drive platter) in a portable cartridge concept . . .
. . . and thereby blew those monopolizing, arrogant pissants at Syquest right out of the water! :lol:
more than cantankerous old coot mode>
I said memoir, because the ole'noggin isn't fully back on line as yet . . . :I . . . so feel free to contradict me!
jt: the old coot with more experience in the realm of funky peripherals than you can shake a memory stick at! :-x