Installing an operating system on an 11/83

[Adrian Graham]

> On 22 Feb 2022, at 14:01, Antonio Carlini via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 22/02/2022 03:27, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
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> I never installed it this way myself, but MicroVMS on the MicroVAX II was distributed on RX50 floppies: lost of them.
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> Of course, that was then and the floppy drives were younger and less temperamental (and perhaps the same could be said about the people feeding the drives floppies ...)
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That didn't stop me being massively nervy installing a VMS v5.0 upgrade from RX50s to a customer's VAX 11/50... I think it was the first one that I'd done so no pressure.

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