[Info-vax] Part number encoding

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:

> I think MAYBE 1985. 

Seems way too early.
That was still deep in the tape era.
The earliest CDs I could spot are some
HP-UX media from 1991.
(i.e. from the time when HP still was "invent"ive)

> One big problem was that existing machines did not 
> have CDROM drives and, in many cases, could not be economically 
> retrofitted with CDROM.

That was still the case even in the early 1990s.
But usually one could hook up an external
(very expensive) CD-ROM drive to the SCSI port,
just for installation purposes.