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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have an archive of the original Quasijarus site here:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com/">https://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com/</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I didn’t prune it, so all the files and whatnot are in there. If this isn’t too far off topic.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But maybe something SIMH’ that maybe needs to be absorbed, I found this SUN-2 emulator a few weeks ago:</p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://github.com/lisper/emulator-sun-2">https://github.com/lisper/emulator-sun-2</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s not TME, and it’s basically just enough hardware to boot SunOS 2… Might be something to look at.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:rde@tavi.co.uk">Bob Eager</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:45 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If it's of interest to anyone (and I appreciate you are mostly VMS</p><p class=MsoNormal>folks, as indeed am I some of the time) I did put up some stuff for</p><p class=MsoNormal>installing a late fork of 4.3BSD (which qualifies as vintage UNIX). </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And if you have an 11/03, 11/20 or similar, there's Mini-UNIX.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/mini-unix.html</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:27:55 -0400</p><p class=MsoNormal>Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan@kerpan.com> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Currently, after the current hobby license expire, your options are to</p><p class=MsoNormal>> either become a pirate or to learn to love vintage Unix. Of course</p><p class=MsoNormal>> this is almost two years in the future: things could end up changing</p><p class=MsoNormal>> in that time.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Mike</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:13 PM Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > To be clear: this license expires in Dec 2021? What are the options</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > for simh users after that?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > On 3/11/2020 5:13 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > my hobbyist id is not in the pack.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > there is no renewal, this is a final license, after this, vms for</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > hobbyists is officially defunct.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Dan</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Try: https://www.grammarly.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > ------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > *From:* Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson@computer.org></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > <tony.nicholson@computer.org></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > *To:* Dan Gahlinger <dgahling@hotmail.com> <dgahling@hotmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > *Cc:* simh@trailing-edge.com <simh@trailing-edge.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > <simh@trailing-edge.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > licenses</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:49, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling@hotmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > I'd like to know if the License authorization code is the same for</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > everyone,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > or if they actually bothered to send everyone their own, for tracing</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > purposes.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > mine ends in 301.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Hari from the HPE OpenVMS customer lab is the administrator of the</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > hobbyist program. He once told me that he maintains the program</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > only out-of-hours and in his own time. Without his efforts the</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > programme may have ended sooner.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Be sure to thank him when you renew.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > The email you receive with the PAKs should have your Hobbyist ID on</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > it. These are tracked. The final PAKs look like the authorization</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > code is a date to me (pakgened on March 1st).</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Tony</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > --</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson@computer.org></p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > _______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Simh mailing</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > listSimh@trailing-edge.comhttp://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > _______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Simh mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Simh@trailing-edge.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Simh mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Simh@trailing-edge.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>