[HECnet] Nothing sucks like a VAX...

[Mark Wickens]

I know now! 

Thanks for bursting the bubble on the myth!

Sent from my iPad

On 17 Apr 2012, at 18:50, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

But I hope everyone knows that the slogan is an urban myth...

There was a slogan, but it was actually "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".

Someone got creative since both VAX and Electrolux made vacuum cleaners, and now we had the VAX computer - it was just a small change to the slogan...

    Johnny

On 2012-04-17 19.40, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
I remember that those pictures showed up at DEC within days of the VAX 11/780 announcement...

    paul

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On 04/17/2012 12:59 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
My father just bought this, found it amusing...

  ROFL!!