MicroVax II/VMS - why 70mb isn't enough.

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
> At 3:40 PM -0400 8/19/07, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Mr Ian Primus wrote:
>>> Well, Sridhar and I spent yesterday doing some
>>> tinkering - I brought over my MicroVax II and we
>>> attempted to load VMS onto it. Easier said than done.
>>
>> I found out that the minimum requirement was 209MB.
>>
>> BTW, glad you got home ok.
> 
> What version were you trying to load?  With that high I'm guessing 
> OpenVMS 7.3?

7.2

> Since Ian mentioned that he's using an ESDI drive, how hard is it to 
> find something in the 200-500MB range these days?  It has been 8+ years 
> since I last looked for ESDI drives and around here it wasn't easy, but 
> I know other areas differ.

I have a 310MB drive somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

Or he could get an SDI or DSSI disk going.  I have a whole load of 2GB 
DSSI disks, one of which he could have.

Peace...  Sridhar