List of VAX computers

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Between 1977 and 2000, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) produced a wide range of computer systems under the VAX brand, all based on various implementations of the DEC-proprietary instruction set architecture of the same name.

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VAX-11

VAX 8000

MicroVAX

VAXserver

VAXstation

VAX 6000

VAX 4000

VAX 9000

VAXft

VAX 7000

VAX 10000

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