On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 14:56, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:42 PM Henry Bent via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I truly feel for the folks who had to do this at the time, using 38 >> floppies on a MicroVAX I. The installer does give time estimates for >> certain milestones so that you could go and get a coffee or whatever. >> "Configuring vmunix, this takes about 30 minutes" is certainly indicative >> of the relative speed of the machine at the time. Also there is an >> indication that there was a tape distribution but so far that has not >> surfaced. I'm not even sure what medium that would have been - RC25? >> > > Doing a VMS install, twice, on a microvax ii is what convinced the powers > that be to get a tk50... and an eagle 400mb drive... or at least put them > over the edge to proposing work that got the upgrade funded... iirc... The > VMS install was on a crazy number of floppies, if you counted all the > layered products and third party packages... > > Warner >
Ah, after a little research I see that the TK50 was introduced in mid-1985, and it was available for the MicroVAX I, so with Ultrix-32m 1.2 being shipped in 1986 it makes sense that it could have been distributed on a TK50. I did not previously think that the TK50 had been available that early. -Henry
