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From: tropp@ce.chalmers.se (Ulf Tropp)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Keywords: VAX, ha ha
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.085917.29248@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se>
Date: 9 Oct 90 08:59:17 GMT
References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11791@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <18429@haddock.ima.isc.com> <41932@mips.mips.COM>
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In article <41932@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>In article <18429@haddock.ima.isc.com> suitti@anchovy.UUCP (Stephen Uitti) writes:
<>In article <11791@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
<>>...All are even numbers
<>>save for one.  This is the "Electrologica X8", with "27 bits per cell."
<>>I have never heard anything else about this machine, which sounds
<>>like a vacuum cleaner.
<>
<>From the Jan 18th, 1990 Boston Globe:
<>
<>                        Now, Lechmere is
<>                        not only selling
<>                     the incredible VAX, (R)
<>                       they're giving them
<>                            away too.
<
<The VAX is indeed a vacuuum cleaner, in fact "3 vacuum cleaners in one".
<I'd heard of it before, but a few months ago, I was in a hotel in
<Australia, and saw a commercial, and even got a photo of it...
<
In Sweden, at a household fair, they advertised a vacuum cleaner
called UNIVAC. It was, I think, a centralized system with the machinery
stashed away in the basement and tubing inside the walls which you would
connect the hose to. I'm not joking! Is there something to learn
from this?
By the way, at one of the Canary Islands, we were supposed to put
out any hotel fire with a fire extinguisher called UNIX. I wonder
what AT&T in Spain has to say?

Ulf Tropp, tropp@ce.chalmers.se