19 Oct
2023
19 Oct
'23
10:17 a.m.
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.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> https://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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