On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, "bart" <b.sikkes@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> I just added another vax to my modest collection, a MicroVAX 3100-30.
> When I have some more time ill go about getting netbsd working on it but
> for now I just have another kind of question.
> 
> What were these mainly used for? I saw it was a rather new model
> (vaxwise that is :) ) and not called VAXstation

http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/testvax.htm

Does it look something like that?  

These were shared logic application machines.  Users got at them through
VT-100 ASCII terminals, hooked up either directly, or via LAT on a
terminal server.  You could run your accounting package on it, for
instance.  Or email, or something custom.  DEC sold an office automation
suite, a (maybe the) character-cell ancestor to StarOffice, called
All-In-One.  How's that for something catchy for the marketing department?
 

In the early 90s, I had a 3500 running Sybase, and a 4000-400 running
(believe it or not) Pathworks.  The were clustered, and the pair supported
something like 50 PCs for file/print services, email, and a 1 GB database.
 I remember the database, because DEC got something like $12/MB for the
drives.  

--jkl