[Info-vax] Looking for VAX/VMS V1.0 and V2.x kits

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-08-14, cornelius at eisner.decus.org <cornelius at eisner.decus.org> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
>> I am looking for the VAX/VMS V1.0 and VAX/VMS V2.x installation kits
>> so I can run those versions of VMS on SimH.
>
> I upgraded a system to VMS 2.x (2.2?) once.  With a vendor's help -
> I was not a sysadmin back then.
>
> There's a chance that I have a system disk backup on RA60
> from that era.  Ignoring the issue of finding a drive that can
> read it, might it be possible to a kit from that? I have forgotten.
>

I don't know if it's possible to build a kit from that, but that
is only a means to the end goal which is a running VMS 2.x system.

If the system disk image could have any site specific sensitive files
removed and if the image could be compressed down to a reasonable size
using a decent compressor then just making the system image available
would probably be a viable option.

What I don't know is how easily you could turn a system disk backup
from that era into a system image using the available tools as that
VMS version was _way_ before my time. (I was still in school when
_that_ was a current version. :-))

I have good coverage of running VMS versions all the way back to 3.x
and I have the VMS 1.5 kit which I am going to set up, but there's
a big jump from 3.x back to 1.5 so it would be nice to get an
intermediate version (as well as 1.0 itself if it still exists).

BTW, was Macro-32 always supplied with the VMS distribution starting
from V1.0 or was it an optional kit until a later VMS version ?

Thanks,

Simon.

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