Still pineing for my own VMS machine

I assume you have access to a VMS box that can read the relevant media. If so you can create a container disk using LDDRIVER (or one of the many other equivalent freeware utilities). Then use VMSINSTAL to extract the savesets (all the savesets) to [000000] on this disk. You may or may not have to manually intervene since VMSINSTAL depends on saveset naming conventions that may not have been applied in the V4 days. Assuming you fill in the blanks above, you will end up with a bunch of valid savesets in [000000]. You can now use STABACKIT to make the LD disk bootable into Standalone BACKUP. (If you feel like it, you can put a complete OpenVMS system on there ... you might as well since your kits *must* reside in [0,0] to work!!). Now disconnect and dismount the LD disk and burn the contianer file to CD as a block-by-block binary (CDR-Win and Gear can both do this, Easy CD cannot AFAIK and Nero and Clone CD I have not used enough to have a worthwhile opinion). You can, assuming you are set up to do this, burn directly from OpenVMS with CDRECORD. For the above method you do not need mkisofs since you are building an ODS-2 disk. If, however, SIMH won't accept an ODS-2 CDROM, you'll have to do a binary FTP of the savesets to a PC and burn the result, I do not know) or pick up the OpenVMS mkisofs (I have a pointer somewhere ...) and use that directly. Antonio