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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-15 14:40:22 +0000, Doug Phillips said:

> I always figured that the MicroVAX I was just a proof of concept that 
> DEC shouldn't have put on the market but decided 'what the heck, let's 
> see if we can sell a few and recoup some R&D.' Compared to its 
> contemporaries it performed like a snail on tranquilizers.

The MicroVAX I and VAXstation I series wwere comparable to the 
VAX-11/725 and VAX-11/730 server performance, and vastly easier to lift.
It was (for its time) a good workstation, and much nicer than competing 
for cycles on a VAX-11/750 or VAX-11/780 box.
Though if you had the wrong floating point format for however your 
applications were compiled, performance did suffer.

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