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From: wws@rruxc.UUCP (W W Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.org.decus,comp.sys.dec,rec.humor
Subject: a new VAX machine
Keywords: it really sucks!
Message-ID: <289@rruxc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 13:28:06 GMT
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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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.