DEC (digital) VAX / VAXstation 4000 VLC Hardware and VMS / OpenVMS DECwindows Motif GUI [EN]

Oh wow! Memories come back! I used to repair those VAXes professionally. Microvax-II, VAX4000/6000, Alphaserver 8000, Alphaserver ES45.... we still have some machines in our spare parts stock 🙂Thanks for showing this! 👍

How is it possible that I didn't know about this channel, and why no one told me??? Thanks for the video, and please do more DECwindows videos! Love your Vaxen collection! All the best :)

1:12 - One thing you need to keep in mind is almost no-one ever paid the full price for those (or any other) workstations - all major workstation vendors had discounts in the two-figure percentages for scientific institutions, universities, and basically all different kinds of industries going on at almost all times.

Great to see old VAX hardware running - THANKS!

I love my VLC. Actually I love all my VAXen. Looking forward to more videos from you.

We used to have VAX, Alpha and Itanium OpenVMS machines in the office. Now we use emulation software.

Thank you very much for this awesome informative and insightful video! Subscription! Keep up the amazing work! I'm all ears (and eyes, too;) )

Wow, I haven't seen a DEC puck mouse in ages.

Cool video. You just earned a subsciber.

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Thanks for that. I don't think I ever used a VLC. Mostly 60's and 90's. As to the size, certainly it was the thinnest VAXstation, but probably a toss up between that and the 2000 as to which one is the smallest. Some interesting topics there 😉

This era of computing is fascinating! I've been enjoying your videos. I had timesharing accounts on VAX/VMS systems when I was in college, but I never had a chance to use any of the VAX workstations. Have you ever experimented with Ultrix or BSD on VAX hardware? I know that the VAX was hugely important in Unix history.

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I just discovered DEC through this video, first time hearing of their computers and OS. Though I'm a bit confused as to why they even existed in the first place, i don't see their OS or machines having much utility over Mac and Windows machines of the same era.

Amazing to think that the phone I carry in my pocket is several orders of magnitude more powerful than this system as well as several orders of magnitude lower in cost.

7:44 i have a spare one of this mouse and kept it for i considered it rare enough

VLC stands for Verx Low Cost. It was the cheapest VAXstation in those days.

I wonder how modern of a web browser could be run remotely with display on the VLC? I remember running NCSA mosaic on X terminals and decstations and later from a sparccenter 2000 to my own local Linux system running X.... per-application remote displays displaced with virtual video outputs (remote desktop) and slinging rendered pixels instead of drawing instructions (wayland vs X or display postscript) seem like a step backwards but I don't think I truly grok the amount of bandwidth available to current systems...

The VLC is a neat machine. Would be even better if it could take a bit more memory. :) Modern NetBSD still works on them but a bit slow nowadays. AFAIK Ultrix does not work on the VLC (or any of the 4000-series vaxstations).

can it run crysis?