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Welcome to VAXBARN, Camiel Vanderhoeven's computer collection, located in a 200-year old farmhouse in the tiny village of Netterden, in the east of the Netherlands, on the border with Germany.

There are always various projects that I'm working on that are related to my collection of old(er) computers, and so far, the information about these different projects has always been kept in lots of different places. Since there are a few people occasionally interested in what I'm doing, I've decided to create this website to both document my collection and to have a place to put information about all these different projects in one single place.

Feel free to browse the Collection, or check out some of the projects I'm working on in the menu on the right side of this page.

For any questions or comments, or if you have something you'd like to contribute to the collection, feel free to drop me a note at camiel(dot)vanderhoeven(at)vmssoftware(dot)com.

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A while ago, I received a copy of the schematics for the Convex C1 Supercomputer. It took me a while to scan them all, but now that that's done, I've made them available on the Convex Documentation page.

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I had the opportunity to deliver a lunch-hour presentation about the Convex supercomputers at the OpenVMS Boot Camp 2017. Here's a youtube video of that presentation.

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When I got to my office in the US yesterday, there was a pleasant surprise waiting for me. The generous donor of the Convex C1 XP had found another box of tapes he once used with the machine. He did not recall what was on these tapes, but had them sent to my office.

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After the Convex C240 Arrived, and the I/O cabinets and spare parts along with it, it was time to continue work on the Convex C220 after the Initial Convex C220 Checkout.

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Last Tuesday, Andreas, a friend from Germany, arrived to deliver the Convex C240. Along with the C240 came all the I/O cabinets and devices for the Convex C220, as well as a lot of spare parts (boards, PSU's, drives).

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It's time to get serious about putting together a small computer museum, and opening the collection up to the public! If you wish to contribute, please consider making a donation to our GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/vaxbarn

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After the Arrival of the Convex C220, I took some time over the course of a few days to figure out exactly what I got, and run some diagnostics. Even though none of the peripherals are here yet (they’ll arrive in a few weeks, along with the Convex C240), there are plenty of things I can do before then.

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About a week ago, the Convex C220 arrived, this is the first part of the Convex C2 Shipment (the Convex C240 will follow three weeks from now). This first shipment consisted of the C220 cpu cabinet, a couple of empty cabinets, some spare parts, some software tapes, and a lot of documentation.

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My name is Camiel Vanderhoeven, born in Zoelen, the Netherlands in 1977 to a Belgian father and a Dutch mother. I am married to Martha, and we have three children: Ties (2009), Sipke (2012), and Rosalie (2016).

I work as a kernel engineer at VMS Software, Inc., and I am one of the architects for the port of the OpenVMS operating system to the x86 processor architecture.

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