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 ===== OpenVMS Technical Journals -- issues found online =====
-It would be nice to point to a complete reference of the entire OpenVMS Technical Journal series; unfortunately a web-search turns up [[http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/journal/|this link]] which itself is full of broken links to journal issues.
+Starting in January 2003, Digital Equipment Corporation began publishing a series of technical journals in the areas of their various technology strengths -- the OpenVMS Technical Journal (OVTJ) library was one of the best of these series.
+Usually published semi-annually (that's twice per year), each issue of OVTJ was a treasure-trove of technical information, several focused and polished articles each volume, and usually written by a DEC VMS Engineering team member or another expert in the field.  The articles themselves covered a huge spectrum, from programming languages to systems design/implementation, from Rdb database performance to VMS performance, from VMS security to VMSclusters.
+It would be nice to point to a complete reference of the entire OpenVMS Technical Journal series; unfortunately a web-search turns up this link: [[http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/journal/]] which itself is full of broken links to the actual journal issues.  Sadly, HPE (and its predecessor HP) have not been very good stewards of this valuable technical-journal library, nor of many of the other VMS sacred relics that they obtained through Compaq Computer Corp from the late, lamented Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
+However, in spite of the broken links in the above web-page, we've discovered that (at least for now), individual OpenVMS Technical Journal issues can be retrieved "manually" via a URL of this form:
+''http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/journal/vXX/index.html''
+ where the ''**XX**'' is a Volume Number from 1 to 20 -- For example, to get to OVTJ Volume 12, use this URL:
+''http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/journal/v12/index.html''
+We're testing this trick for the full sequence of issues, and will report back here if we discover any URLs of this form which are broken and lead to a "missing OVTJ volume".
+When visiting a particular OVTJ volume's web-page itself, you may find either a link to the whole journal/issue (as one PDF document), or you'll find links to the individual articles as either PS (PostScript) or PDF documents -- some of these individual links may be "broken" (404), but usually at least one of them gets to actual article-or-issue documents.  Be persistent, try each of the links you find.
+HPE may further "break" or "lose" this library with any future update of their websites (this happens all too frequently), so as a safeguard, __you may want to download any and all issues and articles__ you can find herein.