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

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:53:00 -0400, David Froble wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I was referring to a VAXstation 3100 model 38.

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Paul Sture