29 Jun
2011
29 Jun
'11
10:08 a.m.
On 29/06/2011, at 7:07 PM, arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
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 :-)
Much more fun was the V2.4 to V3 upgrade on an 11/780. As part of the upgrade there were
two sets of microcode floppies and it was really important to get the right one in at the
right time. Failure to do so would lead to installation failures - but it took an hour or
so to discover that you'd had the wrong one in :-)
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
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