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From: steve@Pkg.Mcc.COM (Steve Madere)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Keywords: VAX, ha ha
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.183711@Pkg.Mcc.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 23:37:11 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:
| 
| 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...
| 
| I'm not sure if this is just an apocryphal story, but I'd swear that
| I heard there was once a lawsuit against DEC regarding this name,
| where the judge finally threw it by saying "you say there's going to be
| confusion in the market.  Are you really telling me people can't
| tell the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a computer, and buy
| one when they think they're getting the other?  be serious."
| or words to that effect. (Maybe somebody who really knows can shed
| more light, although this really belongs in alt....)
| -- 


The only thing they might confuse is the applicability of the company
slogan:

Nothing sucks like a VAX.

:-)

Steve Madere