[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[Dan Gahlinger]

I'd like to know if the License authorization code is the same for everyone,
or if they actually bothered to send everyone their own, for tracing purposes.

mine ends in 301.

Dan.

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From: Kevin Handy <khandy21yo at gmail.com>
Sent: March 11, 2020 6:29 PM
To: Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

I remember trying to find pricing for a tcpip/ucx license for a MicroVax 3100 shortly after Compaq bought out EC. After three days of phone tag, and frequent "Which version of Windows doed VMS run on", I finally managed to get someone who left a quote on my answering machine.

$3000 per user.

I tried calling back to find out more info about this quote the next day using the provided phone number, but was told that that individual no longer worked there, and they had no idea what this VMS thing was.

Could never find any path to the VMS people after that. Ended up hacking something less useful using a variety of hacks, mostly involving ckermit and a serial line. Not as fast or reliable as it could have been.


On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:13 PM Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com<mailto:dgahling at hotmail.com>> wrote:
check your emails and spam folders.

final license will expire in 2021.

That's all folks

Dan
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