[Info-vax] So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 7/11/2019 10:51 AM, Mike K. wrote:
> There's been a lot of discussion on two topics about this recently, but both topics have drifted rather heavily. Since I need a license renewal for my SIMH VAX, I'd like to recenter the discussion and ask: are hobbyist licenses for VAX or Alpha systems still available or are we going to have to either stop running hobbyist systems or fall back on illegal things like LMFGEN to keep our hobby systems running?
> 

Since there is apparently still some question, I'll re-post what I posted earlier today:

My 2018 Hobbyist PAKs expire on 21-Jul-2019 so I requested new ones last week. Here's the timeline, note that all times are in Central Daylight Saving timezone (Fort Worth, TX)

07-Jul-2019 - 11:25PM - Filled out HPE form (at <https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548>
10-Jul-2019 - 10:15AM - Response from OpenVMS Customer Lab with PAK info
10-Jul-2019 - 10:18AM - Reply to OpenVMS Customer Lab asking for media access credentials
10-Jul-2019 - 12:46PM - Media access credentials received from OpenVMS Customer Lab

The initial reply with the PAK info took longer than it has in the past for me but the response with the media access was quicker.

As I posted in another response, since June Hari has added updates to OpenVMS AXP and IA64 media as a response to a request from another Hobbyist (I think it was on the DEC Computer Users Facebook group but I can't find the exact post right now).

Alpha:
   VMS84A_UPDATE-V1200.ZIPEXE
   VMS84A_UPDATE-V1200.TXT

Integrity:
   VMS84I_UPDATE-V1400.ZIPEXE
   VMS84I_UPDATE-V1400.TXT

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John H. Reinhardt