[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[Paula Ash]

Yup.  Got mine too and it also ends in the same digits.  And thank him for me.

Still, this is a bit of a sad thing to do.  I guess I should be
looking at NetBSD for a MicroVAX I have.



On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 6:13 PM Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> my hobbyist id is not in the pack.
>
> there is no renewal, this is a final license, after this, vms for hobbyists is officially defunct.
>
> Dan
>
> Try: https://www.grammarly.com
> ________________________________
> From: Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM
> To: Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com>
> Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:49, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Hari from the HPE OpenVMS customer lab is the administrator of the hobbyist program.  He once told me that he maintains the program only out-of-hours and in his own time.  Without his efforts the programme may have ended sooner.
>
> Be sure to thank him when you renew.
>
> The email you receive with the PAKs should have your Hobbyist ID on it. These are tracked.  The final PAKs look like the authorization code is a date to me (pakgened on  March 1st).
>
> Tony
>
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> Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
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