[vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs

VAXman at tmesis.org VAXman at tmesis.org
Mon Jun 5 09:27:58 EDT 2017


Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic writes: 

>All the VMS Images I have, even the ones from Digital have ".iso" =
>extensions so I assume some software "barfs" at other extensions. When I
>= started playing with VMS images I assumed they were ISO but quickly =
>found out they are not, they are just block dumps of the filing system,
>= and I believe if you have a Linux system you can just DD them to a =
>partition and then mount under VMS. There is a vast collection of VAX =
>images at vaxhaven.com again all as ".iso" files... 

>From Digital, I'm assuming d|i|g|i|t|a|l as in Digital Equipment Corp?  I
don't recall DEC ever distributing anything with an ISO extension save for
DECnet-ISO, later called 'phase V'.




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