22 Jan
2002
22 Jan
'02
7:27 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com]
Sent: 22 January 2002 17:18
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: VAXstation newbie
I have VMS 5.0 on RX50 diskettes. We had a MicroVAX-I that we bought
new at work ($10,000) and another that we bought shortly
thereafter and
upgraded to a MicroVAX-II ($17,000 for hardware and VMS
license upgrade).
We continued to receive MicroVMS and VMS distributions on floppy until
some point after 5.0, when DEC switched us to TK50 (good
thing, too... the
RX50 distro is a wad of disks).
Gods; I thought installing/upgrading from TK50 was bad enough, but floppies?
Eek. I remember the first time I watched an install from CD though - wow! :)
That must've been around 5.4 or 5.5.....
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