Subject: Vaxstation 4000/90
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/04/2002 20:22:35
Hi folks,

I'm currently looking on ebay (.co.uk, not .com) at a Vaxstation 4000/90,=
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which I'm thinking of acquiring, but I can't find a lot of info on this=20
machine.  From the hardware reference linked from the NetBSD site, I find=
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rated at around 10 times the vups of my only previous VAX, a vs3100/m38,=20
which was on the borderline between usefulness and skip-ready, but that's=
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about it.

Does anyone have any pointers to more info on this box?  Size?  'Standard=
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max ram?  I believe it's SCSI, so it should be fairly easy to whip up a=20
couple of drives from the spares bin.  Given an internet connection, is i=
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likely to be of use as anything other than a paperweight?

Sorry if this is readily-available info and I'm looking in the wrong plac=
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I'm something of a VAX-newbie, just enjoy playing with as many different=20
architectures as I can get my hands on...

Thanks in advance,
Tim.