Geneb wrote: There's the license and then there's the PAK. The PAK will probably work (there are certain limits with capacity and VAX vs Alpha vs I64), but the license may or may not have transferred from the P.O. and may or may not (probably not) be valid for a newer version of VMS. DEC did not tie them to hardware as a matter of policy, and many/most PAKs don't have a version encoded in them. The PAK was a means of encouraging compliance, not a futile attempt to force compliance, and so they didn't trick it out to be as obnoxious as they could have. You should probably get a new hobbyist license from the program (they're cheap), whether you choose to use your PAKs or the hobbyist ones is up to you (but keep in mind that you still do need to renew your license every year for the hobbyist program).