Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:23:34 -0700
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From:         alegend <alegend@MAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Help me find an ancient SAS distribution
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Hello All,

For the last 5 years or so I have been looking for a SAS distribution
that would run on one of my MicroVAX II's in my MicroVAX II Museum
(http://www.microvax2.org).

I have contacted SAS public relations and a couple of regional SAS
offices asking for help obtaining a magnetic tape with a SAS
distribution from the 80's on it, but unfortunately they have not been
able to help me. Nothing like that has come up on eBay for years, and
a few corporates I contacted could not help me either.

But I refuse to give up - there must be quite a few SAS distribution
tapes tucked away somewhere waiting to be discovered. All I need is
for SAS/BASE and SAS/STAT to run. No commercial interest of course -
just preservation of a small bit of computer history.

I would need to have the thing licensed in order to run, and I don't
know yet how it would all come together, but first things first - I
still don't even have a distribution tape.

So if anyone can help me find a SAS version (5.0?) that would run on
VAX/VMS 4.7 or 5,1, I would be most grateful.

Thanks!!
-Alon.