OpenVMS and Tru64 Unix - how to get them ?

[Piotr Hosowicz]

Hello to everybody,

At last I have found and purchased Alpha machine, to be precise
AlphaServer 1200. My primary goal regarding this computer is to install
and learn OpenVMS anmd Tru64 Unix, just for fun I suppose, at least for
the time being.

Prior to purchase I found OpenVMS Hobbyist Programme website :

http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/

My problem is that there is no users' group in Poland, so I tried to
contact people via the online form, but nobody replied.

So my question is : how to get a hobbyist license for OpenVMS ? Same
question is for Tru64 Unix, but this is a secondary question.

Regards,

Piotr Hosowicz
Red Hat Certified Engineer

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[Ton van der Zwet]

Piotr,

A possibility that worked in the past (I don't give any garantees ;-) )
is to become an associated member of encompass.

https://www.encompassus.org/secure/membApp/index.cfm?form_type=ASSOC

You can enlist for free via this american web site and depending on a
few factors after a few hours/days You can try to get your licenses via
the openvmshobbyist site. Do you have the media (Openvms cd's)?

good luck!

regards Ton.

[Piotr Hosowicz]

Ton van der Zwet wrote:

> A possibility that worked in the past (I don't give any garantees ;-) )
> is to become an associated member of encompass.
>
> https://www.encompassus.org/secure/membApp/index.cfm?form_type=ASSOC
>
> You can enlist for free via this american web site and depending on a
> few factors after a few hours/days You can try to get your licenses via
> the openvmshobbyist site.

Ok, I will try this, thanks Ton.

> Do you have the media (Openvms cd's)?

No, I don't have the media. Will they send it to me or I have to get it
somehow on my own ?

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[Ton van der Zwet]

Piotr,

You can order a mediakit on the Openvmshobbyist site. A better solution
is borrowing a kit from a friend. This is a legal method, as far as I
know. The hobbyist licenses are all that you have to have of your own.
Remember that you may only use these licenses for non-commercial (i.e.
hobbyist) purposes.

Google for the needed firmware (somewhere on the hp site) and install it
before you instal VMS. On the web are several sites with getting started
how-to's.
(http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/reference/sw_install/ is one of them)

regards Ton.

[David J. Dachtera]

OpenVMSHobbyist.Org offers a media kit for $35US, but may be out of
stock just now. Changes are coming for I64 that may be taking all their
"cycles".

You may also want to look at the comp.os.vms Usenet newsgroup. It's a
bit "noisy" because VMS jobs are evaporating faster than the solvent in
a white-board marker and folks will talk about almost anything to keep
occupied. Generally, it's very helpful.

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