[vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs

Dave Wade dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 09:57:27 EDT 2017


The content might not be ISO but the file extension is.. Usable by SIMH on
the Pc....

On 4 Jun 2017 05:34, "Brian Schenkenberger via vcf-midatlantic" <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic writes:
>
> >Neil, Could you pull ISOs of a couple of the CDs before you take them to
> >IA? Jim
>
> Just to be pedantic, the VMS distribution kit CDs are not ISO-9660!  One
> can make an image of the CD's contents -- call it an ISO if it makes you
> feel better -- but its contents are not ISO-9660.  This image can then be
> burned to recordable CD media by an appropriate burner but then, they'll
> only be useable on VMS.  Also note that some of the older hardware many
> of you may be playing with will have early generation CD-rom drives that
> may be onerous when trying to read newecordable CD media.
>
>



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