After a long wait I have finally got membership of Encompass and have requested and received an OpenVMS licence for SimH (I entered serial no #1, hope that'll work! - leaving the field blank was rejected) I thought that once I had the licence, and simh built and installed on a dedicated machine, that it would be easy to download a .iso image and get started. No such luck! From what I can tell the only way to get the VMS code is to buy the $30 CD? Is it permissible to get a copy of the .iso from someone who has it, since I'm now licensed, or is an original CD a requirement (legally I mean, not technically). If it's OK to download a .iso from someone, could anyone here who has one online and a suitably high bandwidth connection please point me at a copy? I'm desperate to get started! :-) By the way, to the person who asked about where to get online to a real VMS - the Deathrow Cluster has both an Alpha and a Vax and they're real nice & helpful guys: http://deathrow.vistech.net/ About a month ago I installed Edinburgh's Imp77 compiler on their Vax, which is the first time that compiler has been run in many years! - it wasn't possible to 'vest' the binary on the University's Alpha which was the only VMS I had access to initially... Graham