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

[David Wade]

On 16/11/2019 21:02, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> 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.
> 
It says it checks the decus number. Is it still for a valid open chapter?

Dave