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

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:39:30 -0500, Doug Phillips wrote:
> 
>> On 8/16/2012 4:22 PM, David Froble wrote:
>>> 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 good
>>> seller right up to the time they were removed from the market.  That
>>> was long after Alpha came along.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I should have said good sellers "for us" until Alpha. There were
>> people who needed VAX for one reason or another, but not for our
>> software. I've never had the privilege of working with a 3100-98.
> 
> How did the graphics cards on the 3100-98s compare with those supplied 
> with the early Alphas?
> 
> That may sound like an apple and oranges question, but when I had a 
> 3100-38 I could happily use VNC on it to control a PC, but my PWS 600au
> with an Elsa Gloria card gave unacceptable response times using VNC into 
> the same PC.

The 3100-38 was a VAXstation.  There was a rather big difference between 
VAXstation 3100s and MicroVAX 3100s.  It's been a long time, but I don't think 
the MicroVAX 3100 systems supported graphics.  If they did, I never saw one.