MV II help

[Dave Wade]

It depends on which OS he actually wants to run. Some one recently posted
info on old versions of VMS on the VMS Usenet Newsgroup which might be
appropriate.
Otherwise, as I am sure Rob knows there is a lot of stuff on Vaxhaven

Dave.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt via
> cctalk
> Sent: 02 April 2019 17:40
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>; Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
> Subject: Re: MV II help
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> I will reply to email.
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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:21 PM +0100, "Al Kossow via cctalk"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> can anyone help this guy out?
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> From: Benjamin Carlson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 9:12 AM
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> Subject: Fwd: Re: MicroVAX
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>   Greta, my name is Ben Carlson and I am attempting to restore an old DEC
> MicroVAX II for the University of Oklahoma's collections department (see
> email below, Kerry is their curator). At this point, I believe I can get
the
> hardware operating but I have no operating system for itas the Air Force
> insisted on destroying the hard drive. I have been able to replace the
hard
> drive and the system has a tape drive and CD-ROM.
> Do you have any idea where I might find the OS? Also, any documentation
> would be great as well.
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Benjamin Carlson, PhD, CISSP
> Senior Research Engineer
> North Point Defense
> Rome, NY
> (315)571-0221 x 1010
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