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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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