[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[Michael Huff]

As luck would have it I was reading your guide fairly recently. I'm 
probably the exception on this list; my main interest in simh is for the 
occasional "wild hairs" I get to see how far I can get the old BSDs 
running.

Thank you for putting that up!

On 3/12/2020 1:44 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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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