[Info-vax] Looking for early VAX/VMS CSD Consolidated Software Distribution

[Andy Hoffman]

On Monday, 3 January 2022 at 21:23:59 UTC, ^P wrote:
> On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 7:37:55 PM UTC+1, Andy Hoffman wrote: 
> > On Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 18:23:02 UTC+1, abrsvc wrote: 
> > > I may still have some TK50 distribution tapes around from that era. I can't say whether or not these are readable given their age. They have been kept dry and within reasonable temperature conditions though. If you are interested, let me know and I'll investigate further and list what is available. 
> > > 
> > > Dan 
> > Hello Dan, 
> > 
> > I would also be interested in what you have on your TK50's. It was one of the reasons I released all the VMS 4.x stuff in the first place - I saw the end of the (faithless) HP licensing programme and wanted to get the "unlicensed" VMS software out there for others to play with. 
> > 
> > By the way, I had a backup tape from 1996 with all my source code and link libraries on it which I sent to a data recovery guy in London. He got nearly everything back, minus a couple of .SQL files for Oracle 6. A good result I reckon! 
> > 
> > Best regards, 
> > 
> > Andy Hoffman
> I have been looking for the Cray Station VMS software, it should be on some very old CD's as far as I know, anyone? 
> 
> ^P
If I recall correctly our distributions came on £&&&*$&!!!! TU58's as we were running the gateway on a VAX 750. I don't ever remember seeing this on a CD, although I do seem to recall one on a 9track tape toward the end of the 1980's.

Best regards,

Andy Hoffman