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

[Alexander Schreiber]

John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
> On 11/16/2019 7:00 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>> On 2019-11-16, Alexander Schreiber <als at usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know what the current state of the OpenVMS hobbyist program
>>>> is, if it is still alive?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It should be.
>> 
>> Good to know, thanks.
>> 
>>> The Hobbyist program is managed by VMS Engineering in India so
>>> responses to hobbyist requests are done on India business time.
>>>
>
> Not to mention that it's pretty much one engineer named Hari and
> sometimes he misses an email.  It doesn't hurt to re-apply again
> after a few days.  Best is to time it during the week and daytime
> in India if you can. Another possibility is an email to
> openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com asking about your application. That
> could also jog the process.

To close to loop on that: Hari got back to me and mailed me the
license kit with the hobbyist PAKs for OpenVMS Alpha/VAX.

So, be patient, it might take a few days, but you'll get your
hobbyist license, which has a 13 month lifetime. Adding a note
to my calender to update the license a year from now ;-)

Once I've loaded the PAKs I can go explore OpenVMS again. Now
I just have to figure out if I can get networking to work in
SIMH on Android, then I'll have a pocket VAX (SIMH on Planet
Computer Gemini) to go.

Kind regards,
          Alex.
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