[Info-vax] Attaching an actual 3.5" floppy drive to SIMH-VAX RXV21 device?

George Cornelius cornelius at mayo.edu
Thu Aug 9 17:09:57 EDT 2012


Paul Sture wrote:

> Did any VAXes support 1.44 MB 3.5" disks? 

Well, I have a 3100 I'm looking at right now that has a 3.5"
disk drive.  Don't recall the format and density, but it had
the capability to write PC format floppies - FAT12, I suppose -
via a utility with a name like PCDISK.

Maybe I'll fire the thing up and see if it still works.

George

 Oh, and I have a system at home with an RX02/RXV21 -
 a PDP-11/03N.  Unfortunately the drive appears to
 have at one point become a home to a family of mice
 so I have my doubts as to whether it can be made
 to work again.



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