[Info-vax] OpenVMS hobbyist license renewal.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/31/21 10:15 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-01-31 kl. 15:04, skrev Scott Dorsey:
>>   <leo.rams at protomation.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I do not know the type of licenses on the media disk but it makes 
>>> sense that they would be temporary.
>>
>> I don't think there is one.  I think you have a software distribution, 
>> but
>> you don't have a PAK.
>>
>>> The licenses on the MicroVAX 3400 are indeed perpetual, and they 
>>> still work.
>>
>> It may still be possible to get them transferred for a $500 fee.
>> --scot
>>
> 
> OK. I must confess that if this had been me, I had just used
> the 3400 licenes in SIMH and neither ask or tell about it.
> I do not see what on earth it can matter...
> 
> And probably try to use a disk image of the 3400 system disk
> as the boot disk in SIMH. I do not remember, was the 3400 system
> still operational so that it is possible even make a disk image
> of the system disk from that system?

If they don't already have and have no way of making a disk
image at this point how could they hope to duplicate the system?
A backup maybe, but trust me, it is easier to move disk images
to SIMH than old tapes.

bill