The DEC Vaxstation 4000 VLC is the smallest and cheapest VAX computer that DEC ever built. It is a fairly recent model, dating from the early 1990s.
The historical significance of the VAX is indicated by the last of the 10 commandments for C programmers, written in 1987:
Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth
that ``All the world's a VAX'', and have no commerce with the benighted
heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of thy program
may be long even though the days of thy current machine be short.
This particular machine has OpenVMS installed, which has been confirmed to be in perfect working order. The VAX was, however, also a very popular hardware platform for UNIX systems as the natural follow-up for the PDP11. It was the native platform for 4BSD, and DEC later also sold Ultrix for it.
DEC was eventually bought by Compaq, who were bought by HP. Sales of VAX computers was ceased by the end of 2000.
Date: 1991
CPU: KA48 VAX @ 25 MHz
RAM: 24 MB