Hi Mychaela,
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:57:55PM -0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote:
Somehow the discussion touched the recent Vintage Computer Festival event that apparently happened somewhere in Germany [...]
for the record, it was about Classic Computing 2023 (https://www.classic-computing.org/cc2023-hauptseite/) organized by a non-profit that both manawyrm and I are members of.
[...], and it was mentioned that someone brought a VAX machine (running VMS) to the event, a model from the VAX 4000 family which I am not super-familiar with.
for the record, the owner of said VAX (and probably tons of other VAX machines) is Hans Huebner who also occasionally blogged about VAX related topics at https://netzhansa.blogspot.com/
[..] and then someone jokingly said something like "there is also Anti-VAX".
sorry, I'm known for making stupid jokes and puns about anything and everything...
How can I put it politely... I really, really don't like it when the name of my beloved vintage computer architecture has been hijacked to refer to a certain pharmaceutical product [...]
certainly no offence was meant. It was just a stupid pun created by some neurons firing in my brai, nothing more and nothing less.