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From: tris@alzabo.uucp (Tris Orendorff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.org.decus,comp.sys.dec,rec.humor
Subject: Re: a new VAX machine
Keywords: it really sucks!
Message-ID: <1989Dec30.061340.1605@alzabo.uucp>
Date: 30 Dec 89 06:13:40 GMT
References: <289@rruxc.UUCP>
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wws@rruxc.UUCP (W W Scott) writes:

>Please don't flame me too badly for posting this:

>My wife and I were walking through a Sears store recently when a salesperson
>tried to stop us to demonstrate a new vacuum cleaner.  It is called a VAX!
>I stopped, and stared, and asked, "is that spelled VAX?"  (i thought maybe
>the X was a K).  I asked if they cleared that name with Digital Equipment
>Corporation but he didn't know what I was talking about; I guess I didn't
>really expect him to.  So he started to tell me that it's from a British
>company, etc.  I had heard enough.  And by now, so have you.

	It is featured in the Latest PC Magazine issue.  They have a lovely
picture and caption.

-- 
				Sincerely Yours
				Tris Orendorff
				tris@alzabo.uucp
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