9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
5:16 p.m.
Hi Bob,
I have written a few small programs in EPascal, such a DECnet client program to get the
time from a VMS system and set the ELN time from that. Also a LAT program that runs the
Edisplay program in a dedicated LAT service.
As for the kits, they were in some remote archive. I can send them to you. As for the
licenses, they were hobbyist so I no longer have them.
You are welcome to have a look. Set host to PIRTVX, any username will do.
Groet,
Wilm
(Verstuurd vanaf mijn telefoon, dus wat korter dan gewoonlijk.)
(Sent from my phone, so a bit more compact than usual)
Op 9 mrt. 2023 om 17:04 heeft Robert Armstrong
<bob(a)jfcl.com> het volgende geschreven:
Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
1. Find an existing VMS license for VAX and use that.
If you have real hardware then it probably (though not for sure) had a VMS license at
one time. So if you acquire an old VAX somehow, it's important to try to preserve the
existing contents of the system disk. If you can recover the LMF$LICENSE.LDB file then
you can reuse that with a new VMS installation.
Also, if it's a machine from the late 80s then it probably had actual paper PAKs
("Product Authorization Keys"). These were printed on single sheets of fancy
paper in neat little folders. If you acquire an old machine it's worth
checking/asking for those.
As for the legality of this, PAKs are transferrable with the machines, however getting
HP to do this for you today is likely impossible.
Bob
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