At 03:09 PM 7/9/2004, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:


>Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message 
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>>I don't believe 8 inch floppies were ever a standard Microvax peripheral.
>
>The 750 at least had an 8 inch single density only floppy
>built in.  I used that many times for transferring data to
>an RT-11 system.   There were utilities to write RT-11 format
>floppies.

The 78x had an RX02 floppy.  The 750 had a TU58 DECtape II.  Slowest
booting creature ever!

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In article <6.0.0.22.2.20040709153215.02471028@raptor.psccos.com>, Dan O'Reilly <dano@process.com> writes:
> At 03:09 PM 7/9/2004, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> 
> 
>>Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message 
>>news:<WG1YzffNBYX2@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
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>>
>>>I don't believe 8 inch floppies were ever a standard Microvax peripheral.
>>
>>The 750 at least had an 8 inch single density only floppy
>>built in.  I used that many times for transferring data to
>>an RT-11 system.   There were utilities to write RT-11 format
>>floppies.
> 
> The 78x had an RX02 floppy.

Neither the 750 nor the 78x systems was a Microvax.