Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10

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From: ja... Jack Campin
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 00:27

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wil...@mips.COM (John Wilkes) wrote:
  
> I heard that there was (is?) an Australian vacuum cleaner company called
> "Vax" and that they had an advertising slogan that went, "Nothing sucks
> like a Vax."

No.  I think they're a British firm - at least, their machines (combination
vacuum cleaners and carpet shampooers) are on sale at electricity board
showrooms here.  They are bright orange, the same colour ICL mainframes
used to be before corporate beige took over.  The blurb is pretty funny if
you read it as advertising a computer.  The slogan you're thinking of is
for a rival firm - "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".
-- 
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From: ja...@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: TECO on a DEC-System 10
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Date: 13 Jan 90 00:27:18 GMT
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