[HECnet] VMS for Itanium

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 12/9/2018 10:37 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 12/9/18 11:12 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>>     I just got my hands on an rx2660, and I realized to my astonishment
>>> that I do not have a copy of VMS for the Itanium architecture.  Can
>>> anyone help me out?
>> Hi Dave.  The easiest way is to sign up for the Hobbyist PAKS from HP
>> and then ask for the HP FTP site credentials and you can download most
>> of the stuff directly from HP.
>>
>> Registration link <https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548>
>>
>> You need an active DECUServe member number.  If some some reason you
>> don't have one, go to https://eisner.decus.org/. and follow the
>> instructions at the bottom of the page.  You'll get a member # that can
>> be used on the Hobbyist Registration page.
>>
>>
>> Even if you should already have Integrity PAKS it might be worth it to
>> do this so you can download from HP. It's usually the most recent
>> versions (at least for HP.  VSI has more recent ones now but no Hobbyist
>> program yet).
>>
>>
>> Failing that, let me know. I have an extensive collection of Integrity
>> DVDs but only as late as 2008. I can rip them to images and put them on
>> a USB stick.
>    I'm familiar with that process, but didn't want to wait for it. ;)
> Hence asking here.  My member number stopped working many years ago, and
> since I generally just generate the PAKs that I need, I've never
> bothered to look into why.
>
>               -Dave
>

If you have a FTP site I can start pushing the OpenVMS DVD to it.  It's about 4.25 GB in size.  Then the layered products like C, C++, BASIC, etc are a few MB in addition.

-- 
John H. Reinhardt