29 Jun
2011
29 Jun
'11
10:43 a.m.
I remember booting standalone backup from those TU58s just to backup the
disk. It took forever. It would be nice to find a 730 and re-live those long
waits :-)
Regards
Rob
On 29 June 2011 10:19, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs at gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 June 2011 10:07, <arcarlini at iee.org>
wrote:
If Dan was using a MicroVAX in the late 80s it might have been running
MicroVMS V4.1(?) and it might have come on RX50 (lots of RX50s ...).
I did a cluster of 3500s using RX50s to install V5, then licences,
DECnet and clustering from TK50 IIRC. They couldn't afford DEC drives
so used Systems Industries instead, biiiiiig boxes!
The first system I managed was a MicroVAX II
which was running
MicroVMS V4.5C (had to be V4.5C to be in a LAVC with a VS2000).
That one was installed from TK50.
VAX 11/730 running VMS 3.7.... ~20min boot time? That was upgraded to
a uVAX II which I still have in my garage.
Until you've used a TU58 to boot S/A BACKUP
on a VAX-11/750
as part of the VMS V4.7 to VMS V5.0 upgrade, I don't think you've
lived :-)
Booting that 11/730 took long enough, the memories are coming flooding
back now! Just checked our CDs at work and the oldest is V5.5.
--
adrian/witchy
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