One of the later VAXes in the line was the MicroVAX series, my model is
one of the early MicroVAX units, built in around 1987.
Although, as you can see, very compact (Thats a C64 1541II diskdrive on
its right, for comparision), it was certainly quite powerful in its time,
however surprisingly heavy. Bloody heavy in fact, I believe 17Kgs!
My particular MicroVAX has an internal RD53 SCSI disk, of a whopping 53
Megabytes capacity. It also have an extra "pizza base" extension on its
bottom, which has a pair of large-looking SCSI plugs (D50 and Centronic)
on its back side.
Confusingly enough, the MicroVAX has three ports on its MBoard, DB25, DB15
and DB9. You'd assume the DB25 or DB9 would be the console port, right?
Ooooh, no, thats just to fool you!
The DB25 is a serial port for a modem, the DB9 is for a serial printer,
the DB15 however is some wierd mongrel Keyboard/Video/Mouse cable thing
which naturally requires all the good proprietry stuff... However, as luck
as it, there is a kinda backdoor - if you short out pins 8 & 9 on the DB9,
it becomes a console port (supposedly)...
Unfortunately, I just haven't managed to get it working yet :P