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

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 29 May 2012 06:58:50 -0700, abrsvc wrote:

> 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.
> 

I meant backup copies of disk images.  I have installation instructions 
somewhere too.  This all might take a day or two to dig out though.

-- 
Paul Sture