[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:09:21 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> 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.
>

An essential part of my installation kit was plenty of reading material, 
especially for installations at customer sites.

>    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.

My first job on getting VMS up and running was to create a bootable 
STABACKIT on several disks.  That largely eliminated the need to reach 
for the STABACKIT TK50s again.


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