VAXology

Brent Hilpert hilpert at cs.ubc.ca
Mon Jan 18 21:44:14 CST 2016


On 2016-Jan-18, at 5:09 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>> On Monday (01/18/2016 at 02:55PM -0700), ben wrote:
>>> On 1/18/2016 2:32 PM, tony duell wrote:
>>>> You missed out
>>>> 
>>>> STRING AND SEALING VAX : What you need to kludge up a solution to just about
>>>>                                          any problem.
>>>> 
>>>> -tony
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> EAR VAX   : Salesman's problem when you try to order a DECSYSTEM 10
>> 
>> BEE'S VAX   :  The one that Opie first sysgen'd
> 
> VAX on, VAX off : Karate teaching technique from Mr. Miyagi


I remember ca. 1980/1 DEC marketing was producing posters with these sorts of word play.
My officemate - 780 sysop - put one up, some play on Latin like VAX POPULI .

How about OPTIMUS VAXIMUS:  The greatest VAX model or the greatest computer?



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