My name is Arvid, I'm a 36 y/o ICT Consultant, happily married and proud father of 3 kids.
In my professional life I specialize in designing and implementing monitoring/management solutions. I am specialized in OpenView software, but have experience with other tools as well.
Over the past few years I have come across OpenVMS a few times and it was the only mainstream OS that I didn't know how to deal with.
So I decided to teach myself OpenVMS. Early 2005 I bought myself a second-hand AlphaServer 1000, but that proved to be not perfectly alright. Since then I have been given a few more systems, but these too weren't working well. So 2 months ago I bough myself a beautiful AlphaServer 1200, with two EV56 CPU's @ 533 MHz, 2 GB of memory and lots of 36 GB disks.
Since last week I have dismantled my Intel-based Linux system which had been serving as my home-based web- and mail server for the past few years, and took the AS1200 into "production", although there's still a lot to learn. Right now I am making at least one good system out of my 3 AS1000's, so that it can function as a development server.
I never have to heat the attic again it seems, and my marriage suffers some stress lately :wink: , but I'm enjoying myself very much with OpenVMS/Alpha !
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!
