[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Bob Koehler]

In article <df519bc5-baeb-43fb-ae91-757eacf11aa2 at e3g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>, RobertsonEricW <robertsonericw at netzero.net> writes:
> 
> I remember installing my very first VAX/VMS system (V5.0) using the
> TU58 tapes. I don't remember the exact number of TU58 cassettes in the
> installation kit. Somewhere slightly south of 2 dozen TU58 cassettes.
> The system generation process took virtually all day to accomplish. No
> wonder DEC got complaints about that. Even back then (circa 1986),
> that was a big chunk of time just to do a bare bones operating system
> installation.

   By the time I got to VMS 5, I had switched from VAX-11 to MicroVAX II
   and 2000.  We were using TK70 drives, and disctributions came on
   TK50.

   That didn't make the MV II any faster, but it sure moved tape data
   faster than a TU58.

   Just got lucky that I didn't have to boot STABACKIT from TK50, that
   alone was all morning.