Firstly a big thanks (THANKS) to all those who responded to the power plug question. I bought the VAX 4000-300 system on UK Ebay and did the 250 mile trip to Cambridge to collect it early on Saturday. These things are not that big but weigh a ton!! The guy selling it was lot larger than I (thank heavans!) I did not know the suspension in may car went that low! There it sat until Tuesday evening when my son (6'4" & 210pounds) who's a trained weight lifter helped me ge it out of the car and onto its wheels. It need a good clean inside and out but otherwise is undamaged and complete. I extended the notch in the power cable I had and fired it up. First level diagnostics OK Choose a language OK Boot er no but as it seems as the system spent some or all of its life in the insurance industry I'm not surprised the disks have been wiped. Ok so next move. I'm going to try and make a VMS 6.2 bootable tape on the -200 as the -300 has a TK70. The -300 also has a KZQSA (SCSI) controller and whilst they are no good with hard drives I think they work with CD ROM's I also have a stand alone SCSI CD drive (Yamaha CRW4416SX) it has the really small SCSI plugs (inch and a bit long) on the back and the KZQSA has the really big ones. Comments on which is best way to proceed welcomed. Rod Smallwood