[HN Gopher] Vaxbarn
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       Vaxbarn
        
       Author : dcminter
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2023-09-16 11:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (vaxbarn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (vaxbarn.com)
        
       | gnufx wrote:
       | There's also the Computer Sheds (Jim Austin's collection):
       | https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/. I should count how many I've
       | used or at least been around...
        
       | 38 wrote:
       | > Welcome to VAXBARN, Camiel Vanderhoeven's computer collection,
       | located in a 200-year old farmhouse in the tiny village of
       | Netterden, in the east of the Netherlands, on the border with
       | Germany.
       | 
       | https://wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX
        
         | smcin wrote:
         | [Serious comment] Dearie me, with that name I thought it was
         | going to be something entirely different. I guess retro 1980s
         | minicomputing has been namejacked by another topic.
         | 
         | Serious point was: I expect the SEO namespace of the former has
         | been overrun by the latter; how do they manage?
        
           | greenyoda wrote:
           | If you look at the list of architectures, you can see that
           | the collection does contain a number of artifacts related to
           | actual VAXes: https://vaxbarn.com/collection/arch
           | 
           | Maybe those were the beginning of the collection, and how it
           | got its name.
           | 
           | Also, the curator is a kernel engineer at VMS Software (see
           | "About me" at the bottom of the home page), so he definitely
           | knows what a VAX is.
        
             | smcin wrote:
             | You're completely missing my point. Of course a museum of
             | retrocomputing would contain DEC VAX et al.; nobody said
             | otherwise; nobody quibbled the bona-fides of the curator.
             | 
             | I legitimately asked how they actually manage with the SEO
             | namespace having been namejacked by another unrelated
             | topic, which is heavily associated with endless flaming. It
             | occurred to me that I haven't seen the term 'vax' on social
             | media in the old sense for several years now. It's been
             | overrun. (If you go on Reddit and search "vax museum" or
             | "Can I see a VAX in a museum?", zero of the top hits are
             | relevant.)
        
         | dekhn wrote:
         | Pluralized as Vaxen. And for some humor...
         | https://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html
        
       | omnibrain wrote:
       | There's als the "Vaxman museum" in germany:
       | http://vaxman.de/museum/museum.html
       | 
       | But I'm not sure if it's still around and if you can visit it.
        
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