[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS V9.1 Field Test beginning.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sbnag8$atf$1 at dont-email.me>, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at avanthar.avanthar.com> writes:

> One very obvious use case, and one that I've been involved with is recovery
> of old obscure media that requires a Q-Bus system (or potentially Unibus). 
> For the project I helped with, it was interesting needing to figure out how
> to read DEC media that even a couple ex-DEC FE's had never seen.  The only
> way to read it was a Q-Bus system, and nearly impossible to source drives. 
> Having such a system in a cluster enables easily moving the recovered data.

Another approach: get a VAX with QBUS and SCSI and move the data to an 
SBB disk.  Then mount that disk on a newer system.  I'm sure that it 
will work on Alpha.  Presumably Itanium can connect SCSI disks.  I don't 
know about x86.