[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Alexander Schreiber]

Hi,

After many years, I've started playing with OpenVMS again. The current
toy of choice is a MicroVAX3900 in SIMH with 256MB of RAM running OpenVMS
7.2 for VAX. Of course if complains about not having an active license.

Since this is strictly for non-commercial, hobbyist "learning and playing
around", I figured the Hobbyist license should be fine. I've found a HP
website for requesting the Hobbyist license, dug up my old DECUS member
number & submitted all the requested details. Got a mail that said
"Your message is important to us. It has been forwarded to the HP
OpenVMS Systems response team." promising follow-up, but silence 
so far after 4 days.

Does anybody know what the current state of the OpenVMS hobbyist program
is, if it is still alive?

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison