[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

If I remember correctly, DEC was phasing out VAX-11/7xx systems during the 5.x timeframe in favor of the 8000 class machines. While 6.x will probably run, I am not sure you would be happy with its "performance". I would stay in the pre-6.x versions. I have run Version 1.0 through 5.5-4 on the 11/780. So it goes... -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Cory Smelosky Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 17:56 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits? On 23 Dec 2012, at 17:53, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 12/23/2012 05:21 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: As i'm not getting anywhere with my TOPS-10 endeavours, I thought i'd try something else: older VAXVMS in SIMH's VAX-11/780 simulator. ;) 1). What would be the best/most interesting version to try? 2). Where would I get install media for these older versions? ;) I have a bunch of older VMS distributions. I don't know if they're available anywhere else or not; I would assume so but am not sure. At least several 3.x and 4.x distributions, going back to 3.0. Let me know if they're wanted and I can put them up somewhere. Please upload them, I am quite interested in older VMS. I'd say 4.7 for speed and period-correctness, 5.5 for feature fulness. Maybe i'll go with both! The last release of VMS to run on an 11/780 was, I believe, v6.2. I have a copy of 6.2 in some file format nothing knows. VMS doesn't even seem to. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA