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

[John Wallace]

On Aug 14, 11:09 pm, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2012-08-14 16:10, Steven Schweda wrote:
>
> >> Are you sure it was a VAXStation? [...]
>
> >     Did I say "VAXstation"?  Oops.  More likely a MicroVAX I.
> > (Not that it matters much here.)  It was a BA23 box.
>
> >> [...] We are talking VAXStation here.  That's a desktop
> >> pizza box. Not a QBUS system.  No where to put an
> >> RQDX-anything and no room for a drive the size of the RX50.
>
> >     No.  "VAXstation" is not equivalent to "VAXstation 31xx".
> > There were several different Q-bus VAXstation system types.
> > (Roughly one per MicroVAX system type.)
>
> How fast people forget. There was both the VAXstation I and the
> VAXstation II. Same machines as the MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II, but with
> a graphics subsystem. Yes, Q-bus, yes, RQDX3, yes, RD54 and RX50, or
> RD54 and TK50. All in a BA23.
>
> They might have come with RD53 as well, but you get they idea...
>
>         Johnny

BA23 VAXstation? See also VAXstation 3200. KA650 processor (from
MicroVAX 3500/3600) and some graphics whose details I've forgotten.
KA650 VAXstation: see also VAXstation 3500, which I think was a
MicroVAX 3500 with added graphics.

Yes, people forget. And computers do.