[Info-vax] VMS v8.4 disk corruption

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Thu Aug 12 13:41:22 EDT 2010


In article <i3v59j$ntf$1 at pcls4.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:

> I reported what I saw to VMS Engineering saying that this was 
> dumb/dangerous since one needed only to be able to see the OPA0: output to
> see the passwords, not any access to the machine.

   You didn't keep you're 11/780 console in a locked room, or you
   didn't shred old paper back then?

   CRT consoles got rid of the latter problem.  Keeping VAXen in rooms
   with no doors was even better than keeping them locked (but that
   was somebody else's story).




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