All - thanks for the several suggestions that have come in both
privately and to the list.  In response to a couple of questions
we WON'T be 'homesteading'.  Instead we're looking at perhaps a
year to year-and-half and the box will (sadly) be gone.  Good point
that I hadn't considered re possible failure of MB and it's HPSUSAN
number.  Has anyone actually had HP successfully reinstall the board
AND restore the number?

>We've considered dropping annual support on several of our HP3000
>3rd-party software packages (as the hardware system 'slides out the
>door')
>in favor of paying single-incident support charges as they occur.  At
>least one company we've contacted (nameless for now) has indicated that
>their single incident charge is equivalent to their annual contract which
>seems rather excessive to me.  Question to the list .... are there others
>out there willing to support (defined as: answer telephone questions re
>software when it 'breaks') 3rd-party (non-HP but currently
>installed/running on HP3000 MPE)?  How is that support priced?  Other
>ideas?
>Thanks.
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