[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/12/2020 10:46 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
> Nice!
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> You wouldn't happen to have v4.2 or v5.2 ? 🙂


Andy Hoffman has V4.2 except there is a VMS042MUP tape he needs because you can't install any layered products without the MUP. So if anyone has one pipe up and Andy can probably get a V4.2 release created.


Andy posted this on C.O.V 6/14/2019:

    Where are 4.2 and 4.3 you ask? I have been able to install 4.2, but I have been unable to find
    the mandatory update VMS042MUP. Without this you can't install any layered products, so I
    stopped at this point. Actually it was fun working on it because if you do an upgrade rather than
    a base install there is a section which updates the system console media. Fun and games
    remembering how to use Exchange and write a DEFBOO.CMD file!

    If anyone knows where I can get my digits on VMS042MUP and/or an LSE distribution for VMS 4
    please do get in touch.

    Best regards,

    Andy Hoffman

I haven't seen a V5.2 but on VAXHaven there is a V5.3 and V5.4-2 on the TK50 images page <https://vaxhaven.com/TK50_Image_Archive>

However, the V5 versions will require PAKS as the LMF was introduced with V5.0

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> I have v1.0 somewhere heh


 From a message on 5-Nov-2019, Matt Burke has available VAX/VMS V1.0 9Track.net ==> <http://www.9track.net/bits/dec/vax/vms/BB-D782A-BE.zip>

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> Dan.
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> *From:* Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> on behalf of John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org>
> *Sent:* March 12, 2020 11:10 PM
> *To:* simh at trailing-edge.com <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses
> On 3/12/2020 8:11 AM, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:
>> Yes, just received mine from Hari. And yes, the key ends in 301 and does not contain the hobbyist number.
>>
>> I'm curious about the possibility of backing down to VMS 5.0 or 4.4 as a long-term solution. Are there installation files or ISO available somewhere? I started with VMS back in the 80s using 4.4 on a VAX 8200 and a MicroVAX II. It seems to me that the system was already pretty serviceable, aside from the need for third party extensions to get TCP/IP in place of DECNet.
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> Andy Hoffman did some work producing workable VAX/VMS V4.0, 4.4, 4.6 and 4.7 images.  They are/were available here:
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> V4.7 ==> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipk28nb82dw0w1n/VAXVMS047A%20copy.zip?dl=0> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipk28nb82dw0w1n/VAXVMS047A%20copy.zip?dl=0>
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> V4.6 ==> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/oba932mlxgfs38p/VAXVMS046.zip?dl=0> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/oba932mlxgfs38p/VAXVMS046.zip?dl=0>
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> V4.4 ==> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/1mkj08lfu0x7som/VAXVMS044.zip?dl=0> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/1mkj08lfu0x7som/VAXVMS044.zip?dl=0>
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> V4.0 ==> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/iaf8b24qcrsz7mk/VAXVMS040.zip?dl=0> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/iaf8b24qcrsz7mk/VAXVMS040.zip?dl=0>
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>> What is the earliest version of VMS available for the Alpha? Anyone know?
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> OpenVMS AXP V1.0  I thought there was a copy available at VAXhaven <https://vaxhaven.com/CD_Image_Archive> <https://vaxhaven.com/CD_Image_Archive> but I was mistaken.  The next best thing though is OpenVMS AXP V6.1 and OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 (Yes, the nomenclature did change and they skipped from V1 to V6 for Alpha/AXP to match OpenVMS VAX).
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> I seem to recall having seen an OpenVMS AXP V1.0 CD being on Ebay at some point but I never tried for a copy.
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>> Gary, K9NZI
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> John H. Reinhardt


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John H. Reinhardt
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