VAX Model History

Rob Jarratt

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Dec 11, 2010, 4:22:19 AM12/11/10

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I have been trying to locate a timeline of when each model of VAX (and
MicroVAX and VAXstation) was released. I have not been able to find much,
and was wondering if anyone knew of an authoritative source of this
information?

Thanks

Rob

H Vlems

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Dec 11, 2010, 10:03:44 AM12/11/10

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HP offers this: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/vax/timeline/index3.html
But IIRC there must be a .txt file with the information you're looking
for.
May be called VAX specification or VAX performance.
Hans

R.A.Omond

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Dec 11, 2010, 11:24:38 AM12/11/10

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Hans, maybe you're thinking of Paul Hardy's VMS CPU Model Summary
here: http://www.pghardy.net/paul/programs/vms_cpus.html

Bob Eager

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Dec 11, 2010, 12:17:23 PM12/11/10

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Thanks for that!

Anyone know of a similar thing for the PDP-11?

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Rob Jarratt

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Dec 11, 2010, 2:54:10 PM12/11/10

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"R.A.Omond" <Roy....@BlueBubble.UK.Com> wrote in message
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One of the machines I would like to date (in terms of when it was
introduced) is the VAXstation 3100 Model 38. That list puts it around 1989
but I cannot find anything definitive. Does anyone know the month and year
when this machine was introduced?

Thanks

Rob

Michael Kraemer

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Dec 11, 2010, 8:24:01 PM12/11/10

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R.A.Omond schrieb:

> Hans, maybe you're thinking of Paul Hardy's VMS CPU Model Summary
> here: http://www.pghardy.net/paul/programs/vms_cpus.html

but there's no timeline included.

It's not straightforward to locate,
but IBM still keep some announcements letters
of their ancient gear, e.g.

http://tinyurl.com/2v2qvye

Does similar information exist for DEC stuff,
especially for VAXstations, and, even more
interesting, for their Mips based DECstations
and associated Ultrix releases?

Michael Unger

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Dec 12, 2010, 11:00:38 AM12/12/10

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HP? There is a bit of information in the book "OpenVMS at 20 Nothing
Stops it" still available as a PDF file [1].

Michael

[1] <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf>
[2] "OpenVMS History" (at the bottom of that page),
<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/index.html>

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H Vlems

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Dec 12, 2010, 3:25:57 PM12/12/10

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Yes! That was it, must have lost the pointer.

H Vlems

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Dec 12, 2010, 3:28:40 PM12/12/10

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On Dec 11, 8:54 pm, "Rob Jarratt" <nos...@nospam.no> wrote:
> "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Om...@BlueBubble.UK.Com> wrote in message

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Have a look at the serialnumber on the back of the box.
The numbers start off with the last digit of the production year,
followed by the week in that year.
The rest is a production number so that might give you an idea how
recent the system is.
Hans

Bob Koehler

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Dec 13, 2010, 9:21:40 AM12/13/10

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Gordon Bell took a lot of historical info with him to MS.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm