29 Jun
2011
29 Jun
'11
2:07 a.m.
On 29 June 2011 02:22, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at
hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Looks like I made a mistake (badly).I thought 4.2 was on CD
> I was just trying to remember which vms it was that I used on that
> micro-vax IIback in the mid-80s, it certainly wasn't on tape would it
> have been 5.2 ? or what was the earliest CD version of vms?that would
> probably be the best place to start. if someone had an ISO of that
> Dan.
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 ...).
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.
I'd have to look to see when the first CD VMS release came out
but I know I've seen internal-to-DEC CDs for products dated 1992,
so V5.0 seems like a good bet.
Adrian Graham [binarydinosaurs at gmail.com] wrote:
The earliest ones I have, somewhere, is 5.5 and
5.5-2H4. I
remember being onsite with a DEC engineer installing *maybe*
5.2 but I wouldn't swear on it. I just remember being
impressed that it was on CD and we didn't have to struggle
with TK50s :)
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 :-)
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org