A hobbyist program...?

[Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski]

Hi

As an AlphaStation 600 5/333 is coming my way (dead, but, I hope, not for long), I'd like to ask you if there's any hobbyist program regarding Tru64, as it was with OpenVMS (which I'm gonna try to deploy on my Jensen machine).

I have only obscure reference from nekochan.net forums which states:

"After asking very politely, HP sent me one for free including the LMF keys. My AlphaStation 400 is now singing...."

Luck or true?

Rambo

[Steven Schweda]

I don't know what's true now, but in the past
there was a Non-Commercial Tru64 product
available ($99 first-time, $49 for an
upgrade, as I recall).

The part number on my V5.1B upgrade kit
"27 Feb 03") was QB-6CYAA-MB. Google finds
references to QB-6CYAA-SB as the first-time
part, which agrees with the label on my V5.0
box.

With Tru64 being killed off, it may be hard
to get a new kit, or, perhaps, because no one
cares much now, it may be easier/cheaper.

The form at

http://h30097.www3.hp.com/comments.html

still has "Non-commercial UNIX" on its
"category" menu. You could always give it a
try and see what happens.

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

By the way, the Non-Commercial Tru64 PAKs
differ greatly from the VMS Hobbyist PAKs.
The Tru64 PAKs are permanent, but they are
limited to OSF-BASE, OSF-USR, OSF-SVR, and
OSF-DEV, which is not enough to use the C++
compiler, for example. The VMS set expires
annually, but includes many more compilers
and other products.

[Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski]

Well, it turns out this will have to wait- my query to HP remains unanswered (and of course, after ditching me on HP-UX OE, you know this of course means WAR :-D).

The second reason is that AlphaStation came in (beautiful machine, btw) and is dead, as: dead- completely no activity, except subtle PSU click when plugging in. I shaked a screw out of it, but I'm not sure if that's what caused the malfunction in first place.

The bottom line- can't run it yet, ain't gonna need it for now...