[Info-vax] VMSKITBLD.COM fails with CREATE_SYSDIRS cannot locate product description file.

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-01-13 18:00:30 +0000, Dennis Boone said:

> ...but they do have the otherwise-obscure MFM formatter tool in ROM

If I never see another MFM disk, it'll be too soon.

Computer architectural tourists, computing retronauts, historical 
preservationists, and the occasional and 
organizationally-constrained-to-antiquity MicroPDP and MicroVAX sites 
will have different interests.

For those of you simply fond of the sounds of old computers, stick some 
speakers in your new box, and play yourself some ambient sound.  Like 
some cars do, now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb1cUbC1VHM
https://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/computer
etc.

I'm sure y'all can find or can generate ringtones or alert tones from 
some of what's available now, or sourced from the preservationists and 
the tourists, too.  Maybe eventually smell-o-vision, for that 
new-DEC-VAX smell.

As for dealing with RD53, those were not capacious the first time 
'round.  Though they were better than the dual RL02 configurations; SYS 
and LIB et al.

Alas, there are various ways where OpenVMS itself has yet to recover 
from the constraints of that era.



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