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Digital Equipment Corporation 4000 AXP	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1992	1	name company company_name specs tabs photos comments oc_id source 4000 AXP /companies/digital-equipment-corporation Digital Equipment Corporation label value NAME 4000 AXP label value MANUFACTURER Digital Equipment Corporation label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR November 1992 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD No dedicated keyboard but a VT-100 compatible serial video terminal label value CPU 1 or 2 DECchip 21064 (64 bit load/store) RISC Alpha architecture, super-scalar, super-pipilined, 3.3V 0.75 micrometer CMOS technology label value SPEED 190 MHz label value RAM Up to 2 GB label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Depends on Terminal used label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS None label value SOUND None label value I/O PORTS 2 asynchronous serial line (modem and console)\ Either 4 DSSI + 2 SCSI + 2 Ethernet, or 4 FAST-SCSI 2 + 2 SCSI + 1 Ethernet label value BUILT IN MEDIA CD-ROM (caddy), DDS1 4mm DAT tape drive label value OS OpenVMS AXP or DEC OSF/1 AXP label value POWER SUPPLY Universal line front-end unit (FEE), PSC + DC5 + DC3, along with a large number of fans label value PRICE $77,000 to $100,000 photos title subtitle text image FRONT SIDE null title subtitle text image DIAGNOSTICS PANEL null title subtitle text image CD AND TAPE DRIVE The tape drive used in the 4000AXP was a DDS1 4mm DAT tape null title subtitle text image BACK SIDE #1 null title subtitle text image BACK SIDE #2 null title subtitle text image CPU BOARD #1 null title subtitle text image CPU BOARD #2 null author date text rod (canada) Wednesday 27th June 2018 Looks more like a dehumidifier or an air conditioner than a computer. author date text ryan (San Jose, California, USA) Saturday 7th July 2007 I found and purchased one of these at a office going-out-of-business sale in 1996. I have never been able to boot it, some thing must be corrupted? author date text Merjia (Aus) Sunday 22nd October 2006 Wow, 1992 and up to 2gb of ram?\ nice author date text Ian (UK) Tuesday 6th January 2004 VMS is freely available with the Hobbyist licence. See http://www.openvmshobbyist.org/ author date text amorphka (hungary) Thursday 24th July 2003 And what is your experience? I'd like to start one of these (especially a DEC 4000 AXP model 710) but there is no free OS running on this type because of Futurebus+ :( Can You recommend me something? author date text Ian (UK) Thursday 5th June 2003 I run one of these with VMS V7.3-1 ! 895 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230602205013/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=895 2023-06-02

In the early 90s the DEC 4000 model 710 AXP was a member of the DEC 4000 AXP family aka "cobra" (including the model 610, 620, 710, 720) which was based on the Digital's Alpha AXP architecture and the IEEE's Futurebus+ profile B standard.

This family was the output of an initiation in Digital to built the industry's most cost-effective and highest-performance departmental server computing system. To achive this goal Digital changed over from VAX CISC to Alpha AXP RISC architecture, and from Q-bus I/O system to Futurebus+. The DECchip 21064/21064A microprocessors were some the first microprocessors implementing the Alpha AXP architecture.

The True64 Unix v5.1 has buried the old Alpha systems. It was the last release which supported those old system buses, like TurboChannel in DEC 3000 series and Futurebus+ in DEC 4000 series.

Thanks to Kiss Laszlo from Hungary for information and pictures.

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