9 Oct
2009
9 Oct
'09
8:25 a.m.
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:27 PM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Free VAX/Alpha hardware
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Rob Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
wrote:
Hi Ethan,
when you have made images, I would love to download them.
I can test the images. I have a stack of RX50 floppies waiting to
be written with something useful. And I would love to "endure"
what other people did some 20 years ago. It seems fun to install
microVMS on my uVAX II or uVAX III, and a nice activity to do
during the Holidays indeed :-)
thanks,
- Henk.
If you ever image the floppies I would love to
get a copy, even though I
am
not sure how I would get them to install on my MVII. Could you let us
know
if and when you do this?
These are original distro floppies from the late 1980s. I'm honestly
not expecting 100% success on reading them, but fortunately, the
content is far from unique.
As to how you might use them - I'd expect that you'd need a stack of
RX50-formatted 5.25" floppies and the disk image files and an
Intel-based PC running Linux (or perhaps Windows) to apply the image
files to the physical media. Armed with a stack of floppies, you'd
install VMS the way we did it in the old days - spending an afternoon
feeding floppies to SABACKUP.
I have many other things on my plate, so I wouldn't expect to get to
this before the Holidays.
-ethan