[Info-vax] Hobbyist licences for VAX

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 12:46 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-11, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if the simh disk images have a simh header or are
> they just raw images ?
> 
> If the latter, you can try copying over a copy of the existing simh
> disk images and try attaching them to the Alpha emulator you are
> using and then mounting them from Alpha VMS.

They're definitely raw images. On Linux, the file command gives this: 

$ file vaxvms62sys.dsk vaxvms62sys.dsk: Files-11 On-Disk Structure ODS-
2); VAX/VMS or OpenVMS file system; volume label is 'VMS062      '

So yes, we're good to go. 

I've checked that this is also the case with the ES40 AXP emulator:

$ file vms84.dsk vms84.dsk: Files-11 On-Disk Structure (ODS-5); OpenVMS
Alpha or Itanium file system; volume label is 'VMS84       '

Excellent news. Hopefully VMS on Alpha can recognize and mount these
images. 

Thanks,
Alex
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