Is it your personal hardware?
Are you a Decus member (which is free)
if so, get the hobbiest licenese. You'll probably be able to relicence
almost everything on it. Having the licenses expire doesn't remove the
software, just turns it off.
>
>
> Thanks to everybody for the information. Indeed, the missing
> mouse was the culprit. The next time it loaded VAX/VMS V 5.5;
> it started by asking for the date, and I made the mistake
> of actually providing the current date; as it loaded,
> I got about a hundred instances of "license has expired for XXXXXXX",
> with XXXXX being a bunch of installed software, including FORTRAN and
> Pascal compilers and a lot of things that looked like networking stuff.
> Oh, well, I guess that by booting the machine I have stripped
> it of a lot of software. Finally, a login screen popped up,
> but nobody around here remembers any user name or password.
>
>
> It is the first time that I have seen a machine boot VMS. Nice.
>
> Carlos.
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>
> > So plug in the keyboard,
> >
> > and type:
> >
> > B DKA300
> >
> > and wait what happen ...
> >
> > cheers,
> > emanuel
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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