[Info-vax] Digital: Vax Alpha Integrity ... One Love - OpenVMS (YouTube video)

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Jerry Eckert
> Sent: 30-Jan-15 12:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Digital: Vax Alpha Integrity ... One Love -
> OpenVMS (YouTube video)
> 
> If you mean P/OS, that would be the Nautilus family
> (8500/8530/8550/8700( 8810N)/8800(8820N)), which hasd a PRO-380
> console. The Polarstar systems (8810/8820/8830/8840) had a MicroVAX-II
> console.
> 
> On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:30:06 PM UTC-6, Kerry Main wrote:
> >
> > Anyone - trivia for day- which VMS systems had a POS console?
> >
> > :-)

Yep - absolutely correct.

Trivia PRO-380 / VMS misc -

When I was in DEC support, we created an internal DEC p/n (Canada 
only) which was a completely installed console disk for the PRO-380 
(image backup) so techs could order this from logistics and not have 
to install the PRO-380 console from scratch which was approx. 20+ 
diskettes as I recall.

We also pre-loaded diags and script files for testing on this image.

It was a very popular initiative as a 4+ hr call was turned into less than 
30 min's. We even set up the system so Techs could swap out there 
working disks as a means to upgrade their consoles with latest diags. 

We would then recycle these drives and blast the latest image on them 
and return them to logistics.

Ahh well.. I miss the creative good ole days ..

.. back to regular scheduled programming

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Back to the Future IT Inc.
 .. Learning from the past to plan the future

Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com