After two chats, a phone call, and two emails with the technical document tech support branch, I've learned that signing out of framemaker and reformatting your hard drive will not reset activations and Adobe will not help with resetting the activations. They feel that a perpetual license is not perpetual and offer to solution other than purchasing a rental version that seldom is updated.
I've had a long conversation with them over this issue.
Yes, you are correct that if you are able to deactivate or clear all credentials off your old machine, then you should be able to activate old versions still on new machines (subject of course, to the new machines being able to run your old version(s) in a new environment).
However, what you can't do anymore is when you have failed to deactivate/clear the old machine and have run out of activations, the FM folks are now unable to access those old activation servers and reset your count (like they used to be able to do before).
Now you're screwed - even the ability to generate a new (old version) serial number (as what happened to @IsleofGough) doesn't work anymore. Your only option at that point is to go subscription based and get the latest version.
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