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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

VAXen

   /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The
   plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX
   computers.  "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty
   vaxen."

   See boxen.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-02-20)



The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

VAXen
 /vak'sn/, n.

    [from ‘oxen’, perhaps influenced by ‘vixen’] (alt.: vaxen) The plural
    canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. “Our
    installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen.” See boxen.