[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

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On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:36:01 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2012 16:06:19 +0200, MG wrote:
> 
> > Is VAX/VMS V1 still available, does someone have it backed up? Secondly,
> > will it work under SimH?
> > 
> > I'd love to try a really old version of VMS, for the sake of comparison.
> >  I've recently been reading the V1.5 documents, which I found in the
> > excellent bitsavers.org archive.  I'm very impressed with how complete
> > and fully-featured VMS already was back then, at such an early stage.
> > 
> 
> Not V1, but I do have V1.5 tucked away somewhere.  I actually got it 
> running using an iPod Shuffle as a file server for SimH on my old Mac.
> 
> I'll see if I can dig it out for you.  This could be where I find how 
> readable CD and DVD backups are after a few years :-)
> 
> -- 
> Paul Sture

Realize that if the "backup" is actually from V1.5, it will be a DSC file not BACKUP.  The initial backup mechanism was a Disk Save and Compress (DSC) function that was done standalone.

Dan