linc wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, I was wondering if you all wouldn't mind listing
> what kind(s) of vaxen you have running and what yo use them for.  Since i
> am now absolutely hooked on the archetecture of these machines, i was
> wondering what kind of use they actually get these days.

First a comment on Buck's comment:

"J. Buck Caldwell" wrote:

> * UVAX 3600 - in a BA123. Sitting in a corner unused at the moment. Also has a
> SCSI controller, but it's a brain-dead one that will only handle drives of
> 512MB and lower. Has GPX boardset and REALLY HEAVY 20" monitor, but currently
> not installed. I may end up pulling the SCSI controller, and putting it into
> my 4200 - host the OS on the smaller drives, and save the bigger ones for file
> sharing.

Technically this then is a VAXStation III/GPX. (good luck finding *that* badge) I
also have a VS II/GPX that has been upgraded in this way.

As for the VAXen I run (note given the power problems in California these have
gone from the run queue to the wait queue :-)

A VAX 4000/700A which is currently running VMS because It does not have an MSCP
controller (somewhere I have a KFQSA but have not found it yet :-(

A VAX 4000/300 that 'dual boots' either VMS or NetBSD. Its got the Emulex UC08
controller and a 8MM DAT drive on the tape side.

I've got three VAX 4000/200's, one in the BA215 "narrow" box with the associated
R215 disk expansion. It runs NetBSD. One, in the BA4xx chassis, and one in a very
interesting BA4xx 'low boy' rack mount chassis.

There is the VAXServer 3400 (missing its GPX S-box bulkhead) in the BA213.

A MV3800 in the BA213 and a MV3600 in the H9644 cabinet. Both down at the moment.

A MV3400 (or 4000/200) that I'm using for DSSI development (it has both CPUs and
memory that works on either CPU plus a SCSI interface)

The is a MicroVAX II in the BA23 pedestal, and one in a BA23 rack chassis. A
MicroVAX III in the BA123 chassis as well.

A couple of VS3100/M76's that used to be building NetBSD -current on alternate
days (that would give me a snapshot every 24hrs.) They've been replaced by

A 4000/90 that I use to build complete releases.

A 4000/60 that backs up the 4000/90 and usually just builds the GNU toolchain. (I
multiprocess the build by starting the /60 on the GNU tools and the /90 on 'make
release', by the time the /90 gets to the GNU tools they are done :-)

One 4000/VLC that runs NetBSD and is my test machine.

Four VLCs that are set up to run VMS in a 4 way cluster (the micro cluster!)

A VS3100/M38 and a VS3100.

I've got three SCSI interfaces with S-box handles that I "share" amongst the BA2xx
and BA4xx machines when they run NetBSD. And three Q-bus SCSI controllers that are
used in some of the BA23 VAXen. (one is a really slow Viking controller but the
MVII loves it)

Basically I've got too many :-)

--Chuck