[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Tue Sep 22 22:43:48 EDT 2009


Steven Schweda wrote:
>    An actual hardware inventory might be useful.  For example,
> "a tape" is not very descriptive.  Disks(s)?  Ethernet?  ...?
> 
>> [...] VMS 5.4 [...]
> 
>    Too old (1994?) to be good for much.  V5.5-2 is about as
> far back as any sane person would wish to go.  Someone may be
> willing and able to provide some newer VMS installation kit on
> TK50 or TK70, or whatever "a tape" might be.

V5.5-2 is the earliest version to get the Y2K fixes.  I don't believe 
that there were any SERIOUS Y2K problems but there were fixes issued for 
something.  It has been long enough that I no longer recall the details.



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