[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[Bob Eager]

If it's of interest to anyone (and I appreciate you are mostly VMS
folks, as indeed am I some of the time) I did put up some stuff for
installing a late fork of 4.3BSD (which qualifies as vintage UNIX). 

 http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html

And if you have an 11/03, 11/20 or similar, there's Mini-UNIX.

 http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/mini-unix.html

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:27:55 -0400
Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com> wrote:

> Currently, after the current hobby license expire, your options are to
> either become a pirate or to learn to love vintage Unix. Of course
> this is almost two years in the future: things could end up changing
> in that time.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:13 PM Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > To be clear: this license expires in Dec 2021? What are the options
> > for simh users after that?
> > On 3/11/2020 5:13 PM, Dan Gahlinger 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>
> > <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM
> > *To:* Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> <dgahling at hotmail.com>
> > *Cc:* simh at trailing-edge.com <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
> >
> > --
> > Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
> >
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