21 Sep
2012
21 Sep
'12
9:48 a.m.
If you had (or have) the quarterly support contract, you get a folder of
CD's with all the software and documentation.
I am far from a VMS expert, but I have been told that all that is in a
grey wall would be in the CD package. I'm sure that VMS experts will
know which manuals are rare and likely not in such a CD distribution.
It would be nice to know if either the Grey or Orange walls have such
things that should be collected when reducing the pile for the
landfill. Anything which can be had electronically I'd not save at this
point on paper.
But it would be a shame to miss the equivalent DEC stuff to what in the
IBM Mainframe world are the Y and restricted manuals, which crop up from
closets.
jim
On 9/21/2012 9:06 AM, SPC wrote:
No idea.
I got a box with a lot of manuals of VMS 7.x a couple of years ago,
but I didn't review the stuff until now. I was waiting to have
installed my VMS machines and review my hobbyist license (I don't
locate this).
In the other hand, I think that HP had many manuals online in the past.
SPc.
2012/9/21 Richard <legalize at xmission.com>:
In article
<CACytpF8zO_O27KFuoW6CKLUL5wSz90_iMA1RjTj5DvS2rMZvJg at mail.gmail.com>,
SPC <spedraja at ono.com> writes:
/271063456942?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Manuals_Merchandise&hash=item3f1ca41cae#h
t_500wt_1148
Speaking of VMS manual walls, how much of this stuff is online?
The last time I went trundling through HP's documentation/support
site, I had a very hard time finding things and I don't have much
confidence they'll maintain that online content forever.
I have a large pile of VMS manuals that I could start scanning, but I
don't know how urgent/important a task that is. I was planning on
just scanning the graphics related stuff (GKS implementation, PHIGS
implementation).
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