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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-10 13:31:42 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <p9jdf9-5e31.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture 
> <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> 
>> Did any VAXes support 1.44 MB 3.5" disks?
> 
>    We used to have an MV II with a pair of those in front.

An RX50 5.25" dual-floppy drive was far more common on the pre- and 
non-TK50 MicroVAX II boxes, and RX50 was a VMS distro medium.

Dual 3.5" floppies on a MicroVAX?  Can't say I've seen one of those, 
nor a Q-bus FDC.  (Though some versions of the early floppy drives 
including the RX33 were SCSI or had SCSI variants, so it was 
protentially feasible to get dual 3.5" drives off a KZQSA or a 
third-party Q-bus controller.  Whether the KZQSA or the third-party 
SCSI widget even worked with the floppy drive...)

But I'm betting it was an RX50 you're remembering.

But then floppy drives are zombie peripherals; mostly dead.  
Thankfully.  Why am I posting in the floppy thread?  Make it stop.  
Please.


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