[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Steven Schweda]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> I don't "get out much".  I'm retired these days and am limited to the
> hardware I can personally afford.

   Join the club.

> That translates to an AlphaStation 200 4/233, an Alphastation 600, and
> an Alphastation XP-1000 that I never got around to installing.  The
> XP-1000 does have USB ports (I just looked).  But I recall from days
> gone by that the fact that hardware was present did not necessarily mean
> that it worked or was supported.  [...]

   Remarkably, the built-in USB on an XP1000 seems to work
these days (as of when, I don't recall, but it's been a while
-- V8.3? -- possibly with a custom entry in
sys$user_config.dat), but a cheap ($10?) Chinese USB PCI card
(with an NEC chip) should work, too.  (The built-in XP1000 USB
thing needs to be enabled in the SRM console, but that's
easy.)  A cheap Chinese NEC-chip card might work in an AlpSta
200, too, but I may never have tried that before my AlpSta 200
systems were retired, too.  (Not so many PCI slots in those,
either.)

> [...]  But I recall from days
> gone by that the fact that hardware was present did not necessarily mean
> that it worked or was supported.

   Not everything is supported now, but many things do work.

   Perhaps you need to stay in more (and play with your junk).
An XP1000 can be much more fun than the older/slower stuff.