VAXstation newbie

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Jan 21 13:33:58 2002

On Jan 21, 11:44, Adrian Graham wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David.Neal_at_ubsw.com [mailto:David.Neal_at_ubsw.com]

> > I highly doubt you can get the software on floppies, but I'm usually
> > proved wrong, so best of luck. CD is the way to go but not all 3100's
> > had SCSI as standard ( at least as an external option. Apart fromthat
> > you're probably looking at TK tape. Versions varied, long production
> > run, but the most usual was a 5.5, usually rev 2 or better.
>
> ISTR No VMS distro was available on floppy, the only VMS floppies I can
> remember were boot disks for MicroVMS round V4.x.

I have (parts of) 5.2 on floppy. It's a big box, but I don't think it will
help anyone, though, as (a) it's incomplete, and (b) they're proper
floppies, ie 8", not modern miniature imitations :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Mon Jan 21 2002 - 13:33:58 GMT

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