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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-11-17 kl. 13:46, skrev Alexander Schreiber:
> David Wade <g4ugm at dave.invalid> wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
>> It says it checks the decus number. Is it still for a valid open chapter?
> 
> Well, I registered for DECUS as a student 20 years ago when I got my
> hands on a VAXstation 3100/M38, with DECUS Germany. Which got absorbed
> into Connect Germany and I provided that as my chapter, so ... maybe?
> 
> Kind regards,
>            Alex.
> 

I still use my Swedish DECUS member number from the 80's. Don't know if
that is relevant here. But then, last time I requested a hobbyist licence
package was a few years ago.