On May 8, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Earl Evans <earl at retrobits.com> wrote:
Hi there,
I've recently had a full set of DEC VAX/VMS 4.4 manuals come into my
possession, including all the numbered volumes and many or all of the other
associated references. This is the "wall of orange" for VAX/VMS 4.4. They
are in great shape.
Looking at Bitsavers,
Archive.org and other sites, I haven't been able to
find much for this version of VMS. Therefore, I'm inclined to find a way to
scan these and get them into the cloud. Before I go down that path, I would
pose a couple of questions to my esteemed colleagues here:
First, is it possible these are already scanned, and I'm just not looking
in the right place(s)?
That is a really good question, unfortunately I do not know.
If I did scan them, is there anything in particular I should be considering
with respect to file size/quality, formatting, etc.?
Finally, would there be interest? I do believe everything should be
preserved - that said, if it's not possible run this version any longer,
and if no one will ever need the materials, is the effort fruitful.
Would love your thoughts. Thanks!
I've seen copies of VAX/VMS v4.x tape images in the wild, but do not remember where.
As such it would be useful for those trying to run it to have copies of the manuals
available. Probably the most valuable documentation to get scanned for people would be
the SysAdmin parts relating to how licenses work, as that changed significantly with v5.
Another good part would probably be installation documentation.
I had a MicroVAX III that was running v4.4 when I got it (but no tapes), the second time I
tried to boot it the RD53 died, and I rebuilt it with RA7x and RA9x drives, running v7.2.
The doc's that came with that system went to Jim Willing, so who knows what happened
to them. :-(
Zane
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