Hi all,

I'm going on a trek this weekend to pick up a VAX 4000/200.  It's in a BA440
enclosure with a TK70, 2 DSSI drives, and I believe some sort of graphics
option.  Of course I'd like to get NetBSD on it, but I'll need some sort of
Qbus SCSI adapter, right?  Aside from netbooting and NFS-mounting, of course.

My main question, though, is about upgradeability.  The /200 is somewhat
limited in its speed compared to other 4000 series systems, and I'd ideally
like to upgrade the machine to a /300 or /500.  Compaq claims (at
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/archive/vax4000_200.html) that this
system is non-upgradeable.  However, my guess is that this info is based on a
/200 in a BA213 rather than a BA440.  So would it be possible to swap the
processor board with one from a /300 or /500 to achieve a faster machine?  My
apologies if this is an obvious question, but I'm pretty new to the world of
VAXen, having just come from experience with DECstations.

Thanks in advance!

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