[rescue] VAXstation questions

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >>    Actually a current VMS should do pretty well on that machine.
> >> Something pre-5.0, though, like 4.7, will *fly*.  5.0 and beyond were
> >> much, much slower than 4.x.
> >
> > When I think of it; I've got an *original* DAT-tape here with OpenVMS
> > VAX/AXP V6.1 on it. From 1994. :-)
>
>    Hmm. :-)  Not to one-up you or anything, but I've got MicroVMS v4.5
> on RX50 floppies.

Now, how painful is *that* to install?  Are the disks still good?

Peace...  Sridhar