[Info-vax] OpenVMS hobbyist license renewal.

[Scott Dorsey]

 <leorams56 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>I am just interested in VAX/VMS, not OpenVMS and from John's post I understood that the license issue is with OpenVMS...

Well, that depends what the difference between the two is.

>In 2014 we (I on bahlve of our company) purchased an OpenVMS Hobbyist Kit, delivered on CD/DVD, but I cannot find it anymore. Maybe it has later been made available for download.

If you purchased it, it was not a hobbyist kit.  It sounds like you purchased
a full license PAK through HP.  If that is the case... HP could have
regenerated the PAK if you had asked them a year ago.  I am not sure that
HPE can do it now but it would be worth asking HPE.  If you have the license
number it might help.  It would help a lot if you knew which version it was
for too.

>For now I will be concentrating on converting the MicroVAX 3400 into a SIMH environment and try to get it up and running, just to preserve a legacy software development.

HPE still owns all rights to VAX/VMS, but finding someone at HPE who actually
knows what it is might be problematic. 
--scott

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