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

[David Froble]

Doug Phillips wrote:

> The 3100's were good sellers until the Alpha came along.

Could be wrong, but I remember the MicroVAX 3100 Model 98 to be a bood seller 
right up to the time they were removed from the market.  That was long after 
Alpha came along.

At the end of production of the n-vax CPU (I think I got the right one) DEC 
build a 5-year supply to put on the shelf.  The supply didn't make it past 3 
years, or something like that.  Not sure how much of that was due to the 3100s, 
and how much to larger systems.  Regardless, a poor decision, and a case of 
walking away from business.

Some of the comments were about VAX sales detracting from Alpha sales.  Truly a 
poor decision.  Almost a bit line Microsoft's "you'll go where we tell you to 
go".  Another of the many reasons DEC is no more.