[Info-vax] DESPERATELY SEEKING VAX-CDs (WAN-Drivers, VAX-PSI)

[Dave Froble]

On 5/18/2023 6:26 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Friday, January 15, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Christof Neuberger wrote:
>> Hello my dear VMS friends,
>> for a system upgrade in a y2k project we are searching original CDs
>> containing the following products of DEC:
>> 1. WAN-Device-Drivers Version 1.2
>> 2. VAX-PSI Version 4.3
>> The system on which the products probably will be installed, is an
>> MicroVAX 3100.
>> The operating system release is VMS 5.5-2H4.
>> DEC, sorry, i mean Compaq :-( , was not able or willing to deliver them
>> to us.
>> The CDs have been originally delivered between 1991 - 1993.
>> Can anybody help us and borrow us the CDs we need? We will copy and send
>> them back at once.
>> contact:
>> Gudrun Plato
>> phone +49-30-2801-1815
>> fax +49-30-2801-1020
>> email: gpl... at psi.de
>> Christof Neuberger
>> phone +49-30-2801-1858
>> email: cneub... at psi.de
>> PSI AG
>> Berlin/Germany
>
> I will check today but "I think" we have more than 50 consolidated CD-ROMs mailers from the VMS-5 days
> (I think we also have media kits for VMS-6 on VAX and VMS-7 variations for both VAX and Alpha)
>
> p.s. I worry that these will be tossed after I retire next year so have wondered if I shouldn't send them to bitsavers
> http://www.bitsavers.org/
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers

If you think they will be pitched, then don't leave them.

The idea of some repository is perhaps best.

> Heck, I wonder if this stuff shouldn't be sent to VSI except I suspect they already have multiple copies.
> So if you are in a jam (or this is an emergency) then reach out to VSI or Stromasys

Don't be too sure of what VSI may have.  Remember, VAX is not something they 
think about.  Or support.

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