This is from Antonio Carlini, in response to a post of mine on comp.sys.dec.
Perhaps it will be useful to those working on VAX 4000 support...

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From: carlini@marvin.reo.dec.com (Antonio Carlini)
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Subject: Re: The beginning of the end?
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In article <7de4br$jbd$1@panix7.panix.com>, tls@rek.tjls.com wrote:
>The largest problem -- as with the later VAX models which only ever ran VMS --
>is the unavailability of hardware documentation.  With the DEC stuff it's a
>race against time, to find people who can get us the documentation we need
>before it vanishes forever; with the NeXT port, some of the hardware is at
>least more standard, but there's just no documentation available at all,
>and everything has to be painfully reverse-engineered.
>
>DEC folks: documentation for the cache control on VAX 4000 models other than
>the 4000/60 would be very nice right about now. :-)

I've appended below a list I posted some time ago (I forget where). The last 
block of manuals is the sort of stuff you would want to have if you were 
bringing up a new OS, the middle lot may prove useful in bringing up a new OS 
and the first block are useful if you don't know how to fix a widget.

There are a number of major omissions:

- VAX 9000: see VAXft
check my manuals right now

- VAX 9000: see VAXft

- VAXstation 3100, early MicroVAX 3100, VAXstation 4000: for the KA42,43,46,48 
and 49 all I have are Processor Module specifications and these are generally 
not orderable by customers. Having said that, the only copy of corresponding 
document for the DECstation 3100 I have came from *outside* Digital. So find 
someone appropriate and ask politely.

- I've ignored the Alpha stuff as most of that seems to be well known anyway
  ... although I'm still waiting for TurboChannel support :-)


If there is any machine you are specifically interested in that isn't in the 
list below, mail me and I'll see if I can at least find a manual title for 
you.

Antonio


The list:

EK-258AA-MG-003         VAXstation 3520/3540 and 3820/3840 Maintenance Guide
EK-VS800-SG-001         VAXstation 8000 Service Guide
EK-A0513-MG-001         MicroVAX 3100 KA45 System CPU Maintenance
EK-600EA-MG-001         VAX 6000 Platform Service Manual
EK-650EA-MG-001         VAX 6000 Model 500 Service Manual



EK-M3100-SM-B01         MicroVAX 3100 Models 85,90,95,96
                        KA50/51/55/56 CPU System Maintenance
EK-398AA-MM-001         KA660 CPU System Maintenance
EK-347AA-MG-001         KA670 CPU System Maintenance
EK-600EA-TM-001         VAX 6000 Platform Technical User's Guide


EK-KA660-TM-001         KA660 CPU Module Technical Manual
EK-KA670-TM-001         KA670 CPU Module Technical Manual
EK-KA680-TM-001         KA680 CPU Module Technical Manual
EK-KA680-UP-C01         Addendum to KA680 CPU Module Technical Manual
EK-650EA-TM-001         VAX 6000 Model 500 System Technical User's Guide
EK-660EA-TM-001         VAX 6000 Model 600 System Technical User's Guide
EK-KA7AA-TM-001         VAX 7000/10000 KA7AA CPU Technical Manual

Antonio Carlini                            Mail: carlini@marvin.reo.dec.com
DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS Engineering
COMPAQ                                     Reading, UK
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