Vax! (and epilogue on teledisk)

From: Computer Room Internet Cafe <netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au>
Date: Tue Feb 23 23:56:35 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Grigoni <msg_at_computerpro.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 24 February 1999 15:18
Subject: Re: Vax! (and epilogue on teledisk)


>Jim Strickland wrote:
>>
>> Whee! it's finally here! I got my vaxstation 3100 from Tim in the mail
today!
>> It's a Vaxstation 3100 model 42 a-bd with a mighty 8 megs of ram.
>>
>> It works, too! Tim thoughtfully loaded VMS 6.01 on the rz23 ...
>
>We've had to keep our clock set back to preserve our VMS and TCP/IP
>and NFS and numerous other packages...
>
>Anyone have a clue as to how we can preserve the software without
>moving to some 'hobby' license of a newer VMS?


They have expiring licenses then?
I must have got lucky, all my VMS boxen have everlasting ones.
The only expiring license I ever saw on any of my systems was one for RDB (I
think).

Cheers

Geoff Roberts
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au
Received on Tue Feb 23 1999 - 23:56:35 GMT