Welcome to the portal for OpenVMS hobbyist computing.
This portal is run by volunteers on their own time.
Unfortunately this notice is needed:
All online forums are now under heavy attack by "Link spammers" who join just to get links to their web sites higher ranked on search engines. These range from those that are obvious to some that try to pretend that they are legitimate posters by posting either an introductory message or a question that appears to be from someone wanting to learn what this forum is about.
These spammers stand out because they have URLs in the message or the footers that have nothing to do with this forum and are missing any content that would indicate that they have any idea about what this hobby is about, even though some have figured out it has something to do with computers and programming.
If you post a message that appears to be only for advertising a URL, especially if you have never been seen posting VMS related content, then it will be treated as spam as deleted with out any notice other than this. At a minimum, any URL that is unrelated to this hobby is likely to be removed with out prior notice.
HP has also indicated that they do not want any public download sites for their software other than
their own. Any links to live download sites for HP copyrighted material that is not 100% public licensed will be removed.
And any links or posts about how to defeat HP licensing software will also be removed.
When posting your first message, please make sure it is on topic for this forum and includes keywords that indicate that you know what this forum is for.
We do want to encourage participation in this forum and this hobby, and we are willing to help at all skill levels for those that actually want to participate and are able to learn.
If you need software that is not available for download from HP, ask giving your location and someone may be able to help outside of this forum.
If you have software that you want to help out a hobbyist, HP has indicated that they do not care how the hobbyist get their software as long a public download site is not used, so you can arrange
a transfer.
Edited by malmberg on January 15 2015 03:04
malmberg January 18 2021 New Hobbyist PAKs for VAX/VMS are no longer available according to reports. Only commercial licenses are reported to be for sale from HPE
dfilip January 16 2021 Can someone please point me to hobbyist license pak? I'm looking for VAX/VMS 7.1, DECnet Phase IV, and UCX/TCPIP ... have the 7.1 media, need the license paks ... thanks!
malmberg September 05 2020 VSI community non-commercial licenses for AXP/IA64 are available now.
malmberg September 05 2020 See the forum about licensing. Don't know if HPE hobby licenses still being issued. Commercial licenses still being sold.
silfox70 September 01 2020 I need the license for OpenVMS7.3. Where can I find them?
malmberg August 29 2020 Eisner, which is currently being moved, got an SSH update and the keys were updated to more modern encryption standards.
jiml July 11 2020 ssh to eisner is now giving (on linux) "WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!" , Has the server key in fact changed ? Of WHO can we ask that somewhere on the eisner webpage they
wyan May 06 2020 Turns out I had an account here, it still was set to my location a decade ago, so hey, I'm back after over a decade!
Hein April 21 2020 Hi all, haven't been here in years. Good to see it is all there still. I'm looking around at the forum to stop/start msipcap - 'could not be stopped' - for now. I'll shutdown FreeA
EstesDave January 09 2020 does anyone have or know of DRB32 manuals
