I have fond memories too, it was around 2002/2004 ish when I inherited an alpha server 2100A from a friend and wanted to put OpenVMS on it, being in a small tow

I have fond memories too, it was around 2002/2004 ish when I inherited an alpha server 2100A from a friend and wanted to put OpenVMS on it, being in a small town in New Zealand I went to the HP building in the closest city and asked to speak to someone about OpenVMS They of course had no idea what I was talking about, and after 5 cycles of (10: explain what I want, let me get someone technical for you, I don’t know what you’re talking about, go to 10) I finally managed to get someone to point me at the OpenVMS hobbiest programs. Eventually a managing to get the install media I got the system running and spend 2/3 years coding applications for this weird system, while also working on the Linux port for the alpha chips. So much fun and positive memories, I’m sad to see the hobbiest program come to an end