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.
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Looks more like a dehumidifier or an air conditioner than a computer.
Wednesday 27th June 2018
rod (canada)
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?
Saturday 7th July 2007
ryan (San Jose, California, USA)
Wow, 1992 and up to 2gb of ram? nice
Sunday 22nd October 2006
Merjia (Aus)
NAME
4000 AXP
MANUFACTURER
Digital Equipment Corporation
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
U.S.A.
YEAR
November 1992
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None
KEYBOARD
No dedicated keyboard but a VT-100 compatible serial video terminal
CPU
1 or 2 DECchip 21064 (64 bit load/store) RISC Alpha architecture, super-scalar, super-pipilined, 3.3V 0.75 micrometer CMOS technology
SPEED
190 MHz
RAM
Up to 2 GB
ROM
Unknown
TEXT MODES
Depends on Terminal used
GRAPHIC MODES
None
COLORS
None
SOUND
None
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
BUILT IN MEDIA
CD-ROM (caddy), DDS1 4mm DAT tape drive
OS
OpenVMS AXP or DEC OSF/1 AXP
POWER SUPPLY
Universal line front-end unit (FEE), PSC + DC5 + DC3, along with a large number of fans
