VMS 5.3 and 5.5-2 ISOs

Well, in a convoluted sort of way I posted these two ISOs to the down load area. Yup, you can get 25 year old OSs that only run on a computer that hasn’t been made in over 15 years. I hope the traffic to this site doesn’t bring down WordPress. And speaking of WordPress, they limit the file extensions that you can use. So, if you download, change the *.doc extension to *.zip. Then you can extract the ISO file. Burn it to a CD and you should be good to go. I’ve installed both on a VAXstation 3100 including DECwindows and the images work.

Another VMS compatible CDROM

There are several lists around the InterWebs of CDROM drives that are compatible with VMS. One CDROM that I haven’t seen mentioned is the Toshiba XM-5301B. The first XM-5301B I used in a VAXstation 3100 was from an old DEC PC with a 60 MHz Pentium CPU and on-board SCSI. Recently I bought one from Ebay that was intended for an HP 9000 Series 700 workstation …. that’s what it’s manual said. It worked great too. So, another VAXstation stuff exclusive!