HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Mar 11 18:28:08 CDT 2020



> On Mar 11, 2020, at 6:05 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11/03/2020 21:30, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> 
>> Sometimes we get lucky.  Again, PLATO -- got permission to use it but the owner didn't have a copy.  Fortunately, someone else did (an actual still-running production system, on an actual CDC mainframe) and that person was willing to do the work to copy the system in a form we could use.
> 
> Wow. A CDC mainframe still running: I don't know why I'm surprised (given this list) but surprised I am!

Not any more, but it was back then (2004).  I believe it shut down in 2009.  FAA training system.

	paul




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