On Sunday 20 January 2008 05:38, Antonio Carlini wrote: In that case (I seem to have confirmed with simh's 11/780 simulator that 7.2 should boot), I probably need to locate and run some CPU diagnostics... For anyone who's interested, this is what happens when I try and boot the 7.2 hobbyist cd (attached to an Emulex UC18 that came with my other VAX), getting one of the three errors below: ------------------------------- CPU HALTED INIT SEQ DONE HALT INST EXECUTED HALTED AT 20003552 G 0000000E 00000200 LOAD DONE, 00007200 BYTES LOADED %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-F-Unexpected Machine Check HALT INST EXECUTED HALTED AT 00000029 ------------------------------- %SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk %SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk HALT INST EXECUTED HALTED AT 00000003 ------------------------------- Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org

I'm not sure about the legal situation, but I think it would be worth making a copy on some other media before the TK50s become unreadable. Regards Rob -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Curt @ Atari Museum Sent: 20 January 2008 16:20 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: VMS 6.2 or older install media needed. Patrick, I've got a couple of copies of 5.4 or 5.5 (I'd need to doublecheck) on TK50's if you've got the adapter and drive connected to boot from a TK... Curt Patrick Finnegan wrote: