Hello, my name is Brian. I'm a retired software engineer/executive and in my retirement I'm a junkie for resurrecting old vintage computer hardware and operating systems. I have ZERO experience with VMS, although it's always been on my list to learn. I like hardware as much as software, so I have my eye on a couple of different Alphastations for sale and will probably buy one shortly. I stumbled on this site when I went looking for information on getting VMS, since the Alphastations I'm looking at aren't clear as to what OS they have, if any. Although most probably feel that newer-is-better I will want to install the earliest version of VMS that supported the hardware I eventually get, since I want that vintage feel. I hope something in the 6.x or 7.x range is still available. I signed up for DECUS membership and then followed the instructions for requesting information from HPE. This site/forum as really helped me in the few hours since I discovered it. Thank you in advance for all the people that will surely roll their eyes at some dumb question I ask but are kind enough to help me anyway. -Brian
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
