The VAXstation index




I'm getting interested in older VAXstations by receiving a VAXstation 2000. But it has one serious problem, a crashed harddisk and no backup of the previously installed Ultrix. On my search for spareparts, I get a replacement for my harddisk, but not a payable Ultrix. So I look foreward to alternatives.

Documentation

If you are not familiar with the selfdiagnostics of a VAXstation 2000, take this "Selftest Documentation" from Digital. For some more explanations out of the the decus group, take this "small FAQ". The DECUServe Journal from December 1994 gives good hints for adding alternative parts: "DECUServe Journal 12/94"
For a general documentation of most (Micro)VAX machines, the difference in equipment and performence, take a look in the "MicroVAX/VAXstation Systems Text FAQ".

VAX related pages

Digitals VAX index - Documentation related to VAXstations, Ultrix and VMS.
Jim Agnew's VAX-FAQ - Detail information on hardware.
The Info-VAX-archive


Digitals Timeline - A journey to Digitals history, starting in the 50's, the PDP-11 in the 60's, the VAXstations in the 80's, up to todays Alpha. If you look in the year 1987, you'll find the glorious release of the VAXstation 2000.

NetBSD & LinuX ports for VAXstations

"The NetBSD Project" - NetBSD is ported to many platforms, but the developers of the vax-port support most old machines only without graphics, but I think this oonly a question of time.

"The Linux VAX Project" - This developers try to port Linux to machines like the VAXstation 3100 and MicroVAX II, which were supported in the current NetBSD release too.

Pictures of VAXstations

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If you look for more pictures of VAXstations have a look at DECadence.


If someone knows sofware to run an old VAXstation as Xterminal, without the need of big DEC-server or web-pages related to this theme, please send a note.