[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[FredK]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:4cea97f6$0$1126$c3e8da3$aae71a0a at news.astraweb.com...
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <yIKdnSu2WZEjZHrRnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. 
>> Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>>
>>> As of the last I heard VMS does not support USB.
>>
>>    Hear different.
>
>
> Actually, it is partly true. They purposefully disabled USB support on
> DS10 and DS10L machines because they knew that years later I would
> eventually get some and didn't want me to benefit from it :-)
>
> But this was done at the firmware level, not at the OS level.

The hope/plan was to allow it to be used for the transition to 
PC-legacy-free.  A hardware problem prevented reliable operation and 
respinning it for a feature that wasn't required...  in any case.  For 
hobbiest use - just do what I do and find an add-in PCI card.

But yes, in the back of our minds was the chance to torture JF :-)