[Info-vax] Hobbyist licences for VAX

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 17:50 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-11, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > I have booted up my simh VAX instances for the first time for years
> > and
> > I find that the hobbyist licences I had for these had expired ages
> > ago.
> > 
> > HP/Montager doesn't do them any more and VSI only do Alpha or x64. 
> > Are there any other ways I can obtain hobbyist licences? 
> > 
> 
> So others have already pointed out, the VAX hobbyist program is about
> as alive as the Norwegian Blue Parrot.
> 
> Alternative operating systems you can run are either an old version
> of OpenBSD or the current version of NetBSD. In either case, you
> might
> want to do something else while it's generating the SSH server keys.
> :-)

Thanks to all who replied. I think I'll move my stuff off the VAX
images onto ES40 and use Alpha instead. I've now applied for a
community licence for Alpha/VMS.

Although the question of how I can transfer my stuff off VAX images
without TCP/IP licence remains unanswered :-D

Cheers,
Alex
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