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

[George Cornelius]

In article <pl0ceh$fsb$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2018-08-14, Alan Frisbie <Usenet03_REMOVE at Flying-Disk.com> wrote:

>> According to my notes, I have a copy of BB-D782C-BE VMS V2.0 BIN tape.
>> However, it was packed last month for my move to Oregon and it will
>> be several months before I will be able to find it and make a copy for
>> you.   Please be patient and remind me in a few months.

That's great, Alan.  Not surprised you would be the one to
have something that far back.

Meanwhile, I checked the RA60 packs I mentioned earlier.

One pack has this on the label:

  VMS 4.7
  (vendor name, used as an ID for the system)
  5-8-89

The newer pack has this:

  11/70 DR0: OFF-LINE SYSTEM DISK
  IN SERVICE: DEC 27, 1993

So neither one is anywhere near V2. And one
is not even VMS.  I was about to say it was
probably a typo, and they meant 11/780, but
then I separated the pack from the base of
the "cake holder" and saw this at the bottom
left corner of the label: "Utility: BRU".

It would have been an 11/70 I installed
years before that, no doubt.  No RA60 on
it back then, but as I recall someone added
an MSCP (UDA50?) disk controller at some
point.  They may even have gotten their
RA60 drive from the 11/780 that was used
to create the 1989 volume - once the VAX
had been taken out of service.

George

> Thank you.
> 
> That's the kind of thing that should end up on Bitsavers or one of
> the other archives as a compressed image so that everyone can benefit,
> but I will remind you in a few months.
> 
> Thanks once again,
> 
> Simon.