VAXstation newbie

From: Adrian Graham <Adrian.Graham_at_corporatemicrosystems.com>
Date: Wed Jan 23 03:27:30 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: 22 January 2002 17:18
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: VAXstation newbie
>
> I have VMS 5.0 on RX50 diskettes. We had a MicroVAX-I that we bought
> new at work ($10,000) and another that we bought shortly
> thereafter and
> upgraded to a MicroVAX-II ($17,000 for hardware and VMS
> license upgrade).
> We continued to receive MicroVMS and VMS distributions on floppy until
> some point after 5.0, when DEC switched us to TK50 (good
> thing, too... the
> RX50 distro is a wad of disks).

Gods; I thought installing/upgrading from TK50 was bad enough, but floppies?
Eek. I remember the first time I watched an install from CD though - wow! :)
That must've been around 5.4 or 5.5.....

a
Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 03:27:30 GMT