[Info-vax] So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[Rich Jordan]

On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 6:00:54 PM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 7/18/19 4:40 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 10:46:59 PM UTC-5, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 
> >> As I posted in another response, since June Hari has added updates
> >> to OpenVMS AXP and IA64 media as a response to a request from
> >> another Hobbyist (I think it was on the DEC Computer Users Facebook
> >> group but I can't find the exact post right now).
> >> 
> >> Alpha: VMS84A_UPDATE-V1200.ZIPEXE VMS84A_UPDATE-V1200.TXT
> >> 
> >> Integrity: VMS84I_UPDATE-V1400.ZIPEXE VMS84I_UPDATE-V1400.TXT
> >> 
> >> -- John H. Reinhardt
> > 
> > Update V14 is the latest update.  There's only few individuals after
> > that.
> > 
> > Do I remember correctly that th ISO for I64 available there is the
> > one that included UPDATE V5 and an early FIBRE_SCSI kit in the ISO?
> At some point there was a base kit with update 10 included.  I *think*
> there was a previous one with update 7.  IIRC, these versions were
> necessary for various generations of Integrity servers that could not be
> booted from DVD with older versions.

I have only seen the one with Update 5; not slipstreamed in, just on the disk and autoinstalled by the VMS upgrade.  Update 10 would have been nice in that it would be ready for SSL1.