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 <lafo...@gnumonks.org> https://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@freecalypso.org https://www.freecalypso.org/mailman/listinfo/community
