My name is Bob McLean after starting with DEC in 1975 and working for Compaq and HP, I am now a semi free man working with Bruce and Dennis at Bruden. My OpenVMS experience goes way back to 1.1 and my current projects are working with 8.3 on both Alpha and Itanium. Plus I keep about 60 Alphaservers 7.1-2 system humming along and a few 7.2 and 7.3 along the way.
My OpenVMS systems include a VAXstation 4000, VAX 4000-200, AlphaStation 200/233, DEC PWS 500, AlphaServer 800 and my newest an Itanium rx2620.
Non work related activities include working on my 1976 Porshe 911S, riding my Ninja or trying to keep up with my 112 year old farm house.
Posts: 134 Location: Hopedale, MA USA Joined: 15.12.05
Posted on May 30 2007 14:10
Hi Bob,
Did you work in MA in F/S? We had a F/S person assigned to our account in Marlborough (the company was one of the largest in the Financial Services industry) that had the same name as you.
No I started in the Miami Office and worked for the Southeast District, Southern Region and GIA. I think you are thinking of Bob MacLean, he still works out of his house in the Marlborough area.
malmberg August 04 2022 No more VAX hobbyist licenses. Community licenses for Alpha/IA64/X86_64 VMS Software Inc. Commercial VMS software licenses for VAX available from HPE.
ozboomer July 20 2022 Just re-visiting.. No more hobbyist licenses? Is that from vmssoftware.com, no 'community' licenses?
valdirfranco July 01 2022 No more hobbyist license...sad
mister_wavey February 12 2022 I recall that the disks failed on the public access VMS systems that included Fafner
parwezw January 03 2022 Anyone know what happened to FAFNER.DYNDS.ORG? I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
gtackett October 27 2021 Make that DECdfs _2.1A_ for Vax
gtackett October 27 2021 I'm looking for DECdfs V2.4A kit for VAX. Asking here just in case anyone is still listening.
MarkRLV September 17 2021 At one time, didn't this web site have a job board? I would love to use my legacy skills one last time in my career.
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!
