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

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Mon Aug 13 16:09:09 EDT 2012


In article <a4mdnTNpyPjk1rTNnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> On 8/9/2012 4:31 PM, Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:10:03 -0700, sampsa wrote:
>>
>>> Of course SIMH treats it as an 8" double-density RX02 when it's actually
>>> a 1.44 MB 3.5" disk. No physical machines here so can't test it.
>>>
>>> Again, this is just for fun.
>>
>> Did any VAXes support 1.44 MB 3.5" disks?
>>
> 
> I don't recall any.  Some Alphas did.

I have never tried to use it so I don't know if it is a 1.44 or a 720K
but at least one of my VAXStation 3100 has a 3.5" floppy slot prominently
displayed on the front panel.

bill

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