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VAX timeline 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1978 1977 1975

VAX
     
VAXclusters Technical Summary cover
  May 1983:
Digital announces VAXclusters.
     
Sales Update, announcing VAX Rdb
  April 1984:
Digital announces the Rdb relational database management system.
     
VAX-11/785 photo
  April 1984:
Introduction of the VAX-11/785, the most powerful single computer to date in Digital's VAX family.
     
ULTRIX poster
  June 1984:
Digital introduces ULTRIX-32, the first native UNIX from Digital for the VAX family of systems.
     
Technician working on VAX 8600
  October 1984:
Announcement of the VAX 8600, the first of a new generation of computers within the VAX family and, at the time, the highest performance computer system in Digital's history.
     
VAXstation I promo photo
  October 1984:
Introduction of the VAXstation I, the company's first 32-bit single-user workstation.
     
VAX11 ACMS manual cover
  January 1985:
Digital introduces VAX ACMS (Application, Control and Management System).
     
MicroVAX II photo
  May 1985:
Digital introduces the MicroVAX II.
     
MicroVAX chip set photo
  May 1985:
The MicroVAX chip is announced for the MicroVAX II.
     
VAXstation II/GPX prom photo
  December 1985:
Introduction of the VAXstation II/GPX, Digital's first technical workstation for the UNIX marketplace.

 


 

 

 

 

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