OpenVMS licensing notes from various people

notes from people about signing up for VMS Hobbyist licenses.

John reinhardt

It's easier (and cheaper) to get your member number through DECUServe. Just telnet to decuserve.org, log in with the username REGISTRATION and then follow the prompts.  You'll end up with a DECUServe account on their system named EISNER and you can get your member number by typing HOBBYIST at the command prompt.

See the Hoffman Labs site page <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1416> for steps.

Then once you have that number go to <http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php3> to register for your OpenVMS license PAKS.  They should arrive the next business day in your email.

Fairly easy and totally cheap.

John H. Reinhardt

 

 http://www.openvms.org/hobbyist

It's easier (and cheaper) to get your member number through DECUServe. Just telnet to decuserve.org, log in with the username REGISTRATION and then follow the prompts.  You'll end up with a DECUServe account on their system named EISNER and you can get your member number by typing HOBBYIST at the command prompt.

See the Hoffman Labs site page <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1416> for steps.

Then once you have that number go to <http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php3> to register for your OpenVMS license PAKS.  They should arrive the next business day in your email.

http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php3

Fairly easy and totally cheap.

John H. Reinhardt 

Sean Caron

I don't think they'll issue hobbyist licenses to Explorer Members. You have
to pay $50 now AFAIK. (please correct me if this is not the case?)

Years ago (well, back in 2009, IIRC) I was able to talk them into doing it
for free (or maybe I just confused them & they mistakenly did it for me),
but this time around when I brought my VAXen out of storage to play with, I
just paid up. Honestly I'm happy to pay $50/year to be able to run VMS on
all my VAX machines.

When you sign up as an ordinary Encompass member, you'll get an actual
member ID number, which is what you plug into the form.

Also, I found that apparently within the last few months, the duty of
handling the hobbyist license has kind of bounced around within HP or
something, such that there was a little bit of delay in processing my
request. I found that for best results, you want to use the form at -

http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php3

Don't use the form www.openvmshobbyist.com site, I think it's broken or
something; I never got a response from anyone when I used it.

Best,

Sean 

Jon Tabor

Ah, found it.  I had signed up through DECUServe (http://decuserve.org/),
which appears to still be functioning and still free (though accepting
donations).

Jon 

Steven M Jones

On 04/08/2014 10:30 AM, Seth Morabito wrote:

The process is pretty simple now, though the page has jumped around a
bit over the past year. For now, use this URL (it may change in the
future): http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php3

I tried the form at openvms.org/hobbyist several times, trying to sort
out which "chapter" my old-school US DECUS membership had morphed into
(short answer: forgot about DECUServe). But in the end, I got no
response of any kind from any of these attempts...

I'll think happy thoughts and try the form at CCSS - I'd rather work
within the program if possible.

--S.