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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <444a03de-7a46-494a-8b75-b798102384d5 at i7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
	Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
> 
>    For a hint:
> 
>       http://antinode.info/dec/vs3100_diag.html

I saw ST506 and RX-50 and RX-33 mentioned there but nothing even
resembling a 3.5" disk.

Like I said, never even tried it.  The most common use I know of for
floppies is data interchange.  I doubt VMS can read a PC disk and I
further doubt that anything else could read a VMS disk without great
difficulty.  And when I run Ultrix or BSD the network starts and works
by default so there really is no particular use for a floppy on a VAX.

And I certainly wouldn't want to try doing backups to one!!!

bill

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