VMS 30th anniversary contest
JF Mezei
http://www.hp.com/go/celebrate30
You need a valid system serial number. And you gtet some t-shirt and
chance to win one of them IA64 contraptions.
Contest opened to USA residents only. Your mileage may vary.
<font size="tiny">
1 Free HP OpenVMS anniversary offer subject to HP terms and conditions.
Offer available to all customers with a valid serial number while
supplies last. You must meet HP qualifications. HP may discontinue this
offer at anytime.
2 Contest Rules: No purchase necessary. Open only to U.S. entries.
Entries must be received by January 15, 2008. HP will determine and
select the winner from all valid entries received, based on the oldest
running instance of HP OpenVMS currently in production. HP reserves the
right to disqualify entries for any reason. The winner will be announced
in February 2008.
</font>
VAXman-
>
>
>HP-USA has setup a contest to celebrate the 30th anniversary of VMS.
>
>http://www.hp.com/go/celebrate30
>
>You need a valid system serial number. And you gtet some t-shirt and
>chance to win one of them IA64 contraptions.
>
>Contest opened to USA residents only. Your mileage may vary.
>
>
>Offer available to all customers with a valid serial number while
>supplies last. You must meet HP qualifications. HP may discontinue this
>offer at anytime.
...and what are HP qualifications?
I asked Sue about this when the letter arrived. My old VAXen are not HP
servers. Anyway, if anyone here has an old 11/780 in service, you should
be the winner.
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
Malcolm Dunnett
> HP-USA has setup a contest to celebrate the 30th anniversary of VMS.
>
> http://www.hp.com/go/celebrate30
>
> You need a valid system serial number. And you gtet some t-shirt and
> chance to win one of them IA64 contraptions.
Seems odd to give one of those to someone who'd rather stay on a VAX,
doesn't it.
I still remember the serial number of our first VMS system: NI80012904C
(that was a VAX 11/780 put into service in January 1980). I wonder where
that would fit in relation to the winning system. I've been running VMS
continuously ever since, but that box is long gone. Maybe I should plug
it into the entry form just to see what happens.
Sue: How about sending me a sweater just because I can still remember
that serial number?????
Nowadays I only have Alphas and IA64s - guess it doesn't pay to try to
keep up with the times, but I sure could make good use of an RX2660!!!
>
> Contest opened to USA residents only. Your mileage may vary.
>
BOO!! HISS!!
JF Mezei
> I still remember the serial number of our first VMS system: NI80012904C
> (that was a VAX 11/780 put into service in January 1980).
In the all-mighty Microvax II days, the serial number was attached to
the cabinet. While I still have the MV-II, it has been pulled from the
cabinet and the cabinet now has an alpha, a vax 4000-600, a -200
(turned off) and routers etc. I wonder if that might be considered
acceptable :-)
I could always plug in the MVII on the floor just to prove it still
works :-)
Since I can't participate in that contest (not a US citizen), it is
moot. But I suspect HP might find itself with a lot of "questionable"
serial numbers of systems which may or many not still be in real daily use.
Bill Gunshannon
I have a MicroVAX-II in my basement right now that while it hasn't been
powered up lately, should run just fine if I did. I would bet it still
has the version of MicroVMS on the disk that was used at the University
when I go there 18 years ago.
bill
--
Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
bi...@cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton |
Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>
JF Mezei
the internet and everyone wno enters the contests enters that one serial
number ?
Will HP then have to give away one IA64 contraption to each participant
who entered that serial number ? :-) :-) :-) :-) ;-)
David Turner, Island Computers
And...without any strings attached
You can be pakistani, chinese Canadian British French or American
We dislike everyone equally here !!!!
(Just kidding, you know we "love" you all.... as long as you keep buying
stuff from us !
No serial number required - we just ask that you don't put it on Ebay the
day you get it !!!!!!
;0)
"JF Mezei" <jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote in message
news:6698d$474e2c4b$cef8887a$14...@TEKSAVVY.COM...
Bob Koehler
>
> I asked Sue about this when the letter arrived. My old VAXen are not HP
> servers. Anyway, if anyone here has an old 11/780 in service, you should
> be the winner.
Must be some. But right now I can't go back past VMS 4.7 on an
11/785.
It appears to be the version of VMS "in production", not the age or
model of the processor that HP is interested in. Although I've used
versions that would only boot on an 11/780, I've never seen
anything pre VMS 2.5 "in production", and I know those particular
systems have been retired.
Bob Koehler
Reminds me of VW's 25th Aniversary of sales in the US. They promised
a new Beetle to owner of the oldest running Beetle in the US.
Problem was, one fellow had it and claimed it was given to him. The
other fellow had the title and claimed he'd only loaned it to the first
fellow.
VW didn't want thier promotion to become a court battle. They gave away
two new cars.
AEF
I'm definitely puzzled by the motivation for this contest.
"You bought our system eons ago, never upgraded, so now we'll reward
you for not giving us any additional business by giving you your very
own Integrity server! We hope you enjoy porting your app from VMS 2.5
to 8.3!"
Oh, I see, they want to sell consulting services for the port (but to
only one luck winner!). :-)
Additionally, some in this ng often tell me to upgrade every time I
post a problem or question! ;-) (OK, I assume even my VMS V6.1 systems
aren't old enough.)
AEF
Rich Jordan
My desktop workstation dual boots V5.5-2 and V6.2. There are a couple
of very old XUI programs that didn't work under Motif that were my
excuse for hanging on to the original system disk (RZ24, came with the
box in 1989). I know I'm beat by years by others out there but I'm
still happy with this old beast.
Rich
Rich Jordan
AEF,
the site asks for a serial number and says "if you have the
oldest running HP OpenVMS server, you'll win"; pretty sure that means
just hardware, not software version.
AEF
Well, that contradicts the post I replied to, so ... whatever.
AEF
AEF
Well, I just checked. The title says, "We're looking for the oldest
running instance of HP OpenVMS" which supports Bob's statement, but in
totality the page is somewhat ambiguous as to what is meant.
AEF
JF Mezei
> I'm definitely puzzled by the motivation for this contest.
>
> "You bought our system eons ago, never upgraded, so now we'll reward
> you for not giving us any additional business by giving you your very
> own Integrity server! We hope you enjoy porting your app from VMS 2.5
> to 8.3!"
Look, VMS management got a few thousand bucks of marketing budget to
celebrate the 30 anniversary of VMS. And finding out the oldest running
VMS site would be interesting. By giving a free IA64 contraption, the
VMS group probably gains the right to publish the name of the winner and
brag about VMS being able to run for X years, being stable etc. And if
they get that customer to migrate to that IA64 contraption, they can
even claim how easy it was to migrate 30 year old software to that IA74
contraption etc etc.
There is good marketing potential for this. Of course we all know that
whatever marketing the VMS group does, no matter how good it might be,
will only reach the installed base.
VAXman-
>
>
>On Nov 29, 9:49 am, koeh...@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
>Koehler) wrote:
>> In article <d9o3j.152$Pk...@newsfe09.lga>, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>
>>
>>
>> > I asked Sue about this when the letter arrived. My old VAXen are not HP
>> > servers. Anyway, if anyone here has an old 11/780 in service, you should
>> > be the winner.
>>
>> Must be some. But right now I can't go back past VMS 4.7 on an
>> 11/785.
>>
>> It appears to be the version of VMS "in production", not the age or
>> model of the processor that HP is interested in. Although I've used
>> versions that would only boot on an 11/780, I've never seen
>> anything pre VMS 2.5 "in production", and I know those particular
>> systems have been retired.
>
>I'm definitely puzzled by the motivation for this contest.
>
>"You bought our system eons ago, never upgraded, so now we'll reward
>you for not giving us any additional business by giving you your very
>own Integrity server! We hope you enjoy porting your app from VMS 2.5
>to 8.3!"
>
>Oh, I see, they want to sell consulting services for the port (but to
>only one luck winner!). :-)
Dear Contest Winner,
See me after HP has quoted you the rate to port your VAX VMS 2.5 app to
OpenVMS Itanium 8.3. I promise to best their quote. :)
Bob Koehler
>
> See me after HP has quoted you the rate to port your VAX VMS 2.5 app to
> OpenVMS Itanium 8.3. I promise to best their quote. :)
>
Will you include converting the $15 million US custom UNIBUS
peripheral to something that can attach to the Integrity?
Tim Sneddon
>
Isn't UniBuS the same as USB? :-) You wouldn't need to convert anything,
just plug it into the port supplied on the Integrity.
Regards, Tim.
--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
VAXman-
>
>
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <4ZMqsw...@eisner.encompasserve.org>, koe...@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>
>>> In article <6vG3j.68$Wr5...@newsfe10.lga>, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>> See me after HP has quoted you the rate to port your VAX VMS 2.5 app to
>>>> OpenVMS Itanium 8.3. I promise to best their quote. :)
>>>>
>>> Will you include converting the $15 million US custom UNIBUS
>>> peripheral to something that can attach to the Integrity?
>>
>> Isn't there a PCI-X to UNIBUS adapter available for Integrity? :)
>>
>
>Isn't UniBuS the same as USB? :-) You wouldn't need to convert anything,
>just plug it into the port supplied on the Integrity.
Or maybe there's a USB to UniBuS widget.... Hey Forrest! :)
Chris Scheers
I'll help out. I think that a little TLC could solve that problem.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Chris Scheers, Applied Synergy, Inc.
Voice: 817-237-3360 Internet: ch...@applied-synergy.com
Fax: 817-237-3074
Malcolm Dunnett
Well I can now confirm that entering the contest (I submitted an entry
even thought I don't qualify as a form of protest ) will get you a phone
call within 48 hours from an HP telemarketer.
bradhamilton
I got one today, as well.