Hi Rob,

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Robert Current wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	A guy here at work is throwing out some old VAX'es (Vaxi? ??), 

Vaxen.  

> and
> I wanted to see if any were worth holding on to.  I looked ovr the VAX
> info pages, and it wasn't totally clear to me what models these are, and
> what (if anything) I could expect them to be able to do running NetBSD.

What mine does is run NetBSD!  It compiles programs and heats the room.
 
> VAX Station 2000 (Model No. VS410-BA) (one of these)
> MicroVAX II (Model No. 630QB-A2) (two of these)
> VAX Station (Model No. VX5XB-AA) (two of these)
> 
> 	So, any of these worth playing around with?  

To me, absolutely.  I've got NetBSD running on a MicroVAX II. Actually,
it's a VAXstation II with a dead video card.  If any of these do ever turn
to scrap I'd love the chance to get a replacement video card.

> Any idea what the
> model numbers mean exactly?  Any of these capable of more than say, a
> i386SX?

I believe the pc phrase would be "differently capable".  I think my uVAX
II is nimbler than the last 386-SX system I had running a freenix.  And
since the wizards fixed that last paging problem it takes a power failure
to bring down the VAX.

Somebody else is sure to supply you with some technical specs.  Or try
mucking about http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/vax/index.html.

Regards,

- Greg