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In article <9073FIB@PSUVM>, FIB@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
> 2)  Has anybody had any experience (good or bad) with the Bernoulli Box?  My
>     understanding is that it acts like a hard disk, but is removable.  Is this
>     true?  If so, it may be the answer to the above data security problem.
>     Also, any details on its operation would be appreciated.  Since I may be
>     working with some good size files, how is access speed as compared to a
>     standard hard disk?
Yeah, I wrote the driver for the IOMEGA 10.5 for XENIX.  True it acts
like any other SCSI hard disk except that it is SLOW!  Despite what the
advertisments claim, the data rates are no where near a decent hard disk.
The cartridges are removable and damn near indestructible.  The performance
is at best that of a floppy disk.  Note that in the dual drive model, you
can't do overlapped seeks (move the heads on one drive while doing a
transfer on the other) since the controller will refuse additional commands
during a seek.  In addition, it doesn't obey the SCSI protocol which required
some additional hacks to the driver.
 
> 6)  I'm also taking recomendations on low/medium price Letter quality (18-24
>     pin) Dot Matrix Printers.  The only printers I've ever used have been
>     Epson... none of which have the quality I'm looking for.  Suggestions?
See last months PC TECH JOURNAL.  They had an extensive review of printers
with print samples.