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The Question is: Hello, We've recently aquired a VAX 8530 system in the Electronics Club at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. We were lucky to find it being thrown out, and also lucky to have 3-phase power to run it. :) Anyways, since the RA82 hard drive that probably had VMS installed on it fails to spin up, we need VMS media to install the OS on one of our other hard drives. This means that we need a 6250bpi tape for our TU81+ tape drive, and the right floppy disk fo r our "VAX Console" to bootstrap the machine. Obviously, simply getting the hobbyist OpenVMS CD doesn't do us much good. Do you have any suggesstions as to where/how we may get the proper media for our system? I'm hoping that you may have such media somewhere around there. (We don't need the latest version, if you can't find it. We'd just like something that supports TCP/IP) Thanks, Derek Konigsberg RPI Electronics Club, President konigd@rpi.edu The Answer is : You have various options: you can locate an InfoServer (which can serve a CD-ROM to this system and the VAX 8530 can then network bootstrap), or you can order a nine-track OpenVMS distribution kit (these kits are currently still available from Compaq), or you can locate somebody that can provide you with a standalone BACKUP kit on the necessary nine-track media, and copies of the VMS0%%.% and DECW0%%.% savesets on the same or associated non-track media, or you can cable the "B" port of the RA82 drive over to another OpenVMS system that has direct access to a CD-ROM drive and load it from there. The VAX Console software required for the Pro console was generally only distributed by the Compaq Field Service organization. Though there have clearly been discussions of this topic in the OpenVMS newsgroups, the OpenVMS Wizard would hope you have already been in direct contact with the folks at the Compaq office in Albany NY.
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