Does anyone know if a 5.5-2 era CONOLD is available? These that have just been made available are beyond awesome, as I gave my paper set of 5.x doc’s to Paul Allen’s computer museum, only keeping the basic 6 paperbacks, since I have a complete 6.x set, and the base 7.2 set
I’m going to see about putting them on PDXVAX (which is on HECnet), and making them available for viewing with VTBOOK. I need to hunt up copies of that and a couple other things. I should have them in my archives. I want to say that there is a WASD package that will handle bookreader format doc’s. Zane > On May 16, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 16/05/2021 13:51, Malte Dehling wrote: >> I have now generated a contents listing for the CONOLD CDs: >> >> https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-03 >> https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-07 >> > That looks interesting: the fundamental VMS documentation is there, but very > little of the layered product info is present. > > The MAR-1989 CONOLD has FORTRAN and DBMS and the JUL-1989 CONOLD has C, > FORTRAN, PASCAL, GKS, DBMS, VDE and DECforms. > > So I would speculate that these would be amongst the earliest CONOLD > distributions. I read elsewhere (comp.os.vms) that the first CONDIST > > went out in the VMS V5.0 timeframe and the 1989-05 CONDIST contains both VMS > V5.0 and V5.1. VMS V5.0 was announced > > in APR-1998 > (https://eisner.decus.org/anon/htnotes/note?f1=INDUSTRY_NEWS&f2=64.0), so it > is possible that some earlier CONDIST > > may yet appear. > > > I've put the CD_CONTENTS.DAT that I have up on github: > https://github.com/AntonioCarlini/dec-cdrom-distros. (I just realised that > I've mis-named the 1989-05 release as 1989-03 ... I'll fix that rsn). > > I guess that I should do something similar for the CONOLD CDROMs. Did you > find DECW$SHELF to be enough to build up an accurate list of contents? > > > Antonio > > -- > Antonio Carlini > anto...@acarlini.com >
