[Info-vax] Old Vax computer equipment

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-05-12 13:48:07 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <5551321c$0$64021$b1db1813$2411a48f at news.astraweb.com>, JF 
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> On 15-05-11 18:33, mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Vax is hardware.  Alpha is hardware.  Ergo "Vax Alpha" doesn't make 
>>> much sense to people familiar with VMS.
>> 
>> Wasn't there one VAX model that was sold as being upgradable to an 
>> Alpha?  (I guess board swap).
> 
>    There were more than one VAX 4000 qbus models sold as upgradeable to 
> Alpha.  No such upgrade was ever produced.

Interesting.   I don't recall that case; a VAX 4000 Q-bus that was sold 
as being upgradable to Alpha short of a box-swap.  There was the 
rarely-seen but still available VAX 4000 model 50 upgrade for some 
Q-bus boxes, and there were Q-bus expansions for various VAX 4000 model 
1xx seres boxes, but AFAIK all of the non-box-swap upgradable VAX 
systems were among the VAX 7000 and VAX 10000 series.   Not the VAX 
4000 series.  Have any more details on that Alpha-upgradable VAX 4000?


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