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> 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 Nether

by 38 3y ago

> 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 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX

smcin 3y ago
[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 3y ago
  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 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 3y ago
    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.)
- tedunangst 3y ago
  What are you even talking about?
  - smcin 3y ago
    Stop being rude. For the third time, I posted a legitimate inquiry how the set of people using 'VAX' in the now-niche sense 'retrocomputing' manage to handle the SEO namespace for 'VAX' since 2020 being overrun with unrelated posts about vaccines and all sorts of partisan political theories. Like I said, an inquiry for "Can I see a VAX in a museum?" these days gives zero relevant top hits on e.g. Reddit. (This question is analogous to what happened to many existing businesses or brands that contained the name 'ISIS' in 2013.)
    - tchbnl 3y ago
      I imagine most people talking about old VAX machines don't care about SEO. And I doubt there were ever any relevant top hits for "Can I see a VAX in a museum?" on reddit since day one. But none of that matters, because if you wanted to ask or search for that, you would do it in one of the relevant subreddits. And if I search for "vax computer" on Google I get plenty of good results on the first page. You're making this into more of an issue than it is.
- jnsaff2 3y ago
  Funny how brains work. For me the order of association was: 1. IKEA Product? 2. Something to do with VAX computers … 3. I had to think tens of seconds about what your comment refers to but I find it perfectly valid that you had a different order of association.
  - arketyp 3y ago
    > 1. IKEA Product? In Swedish it means wax child.
dekhn 3y ago
Pluralized as Vaxen. And for some humor... https://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html https://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html
- classichasclass 3y ago
  Ah, halon. Fortunately never was around when we had an activation, but I knew other people who kept their running shoes on.

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smcin 3y ago

[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 3y ago
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 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 3y ago
  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.)
tedunangst 3y ago
What are you even talking about?
- smcin 3y ago
  Stop being rude. For the third time, I posted a legitimate inquiry how the set of people using 'VAX' in the now-niche sense 'retrocomputing' manage to handle the SEO namespace for 'VAX' since 2020 being overrun with unrelated posts about vaccines and all sorts of partisan political theories. Like I said, an inquiry for "Can I see a VAX in a museum?" these days gives zero relevant top hits on e.g. Reddit. (This question is analogous to what happened to many existing businesses or brands that contained the name 'ISIS' in 2013.)
  - tchbnl 3y ago
    I imagine most people talking about old VAX machines don't care about SEO. And I doubt there were ever any relevant top hits for "Can I see a VAX in a museum?" on reddit since day one. But none of that matters, because if you wanted to ask or search for that, you would do it in one of the relevant subreddits. And if I search for "vax computer" on Google I get plenty of good results on the first page. You're making this into more of an issue than it is.
jnsaff2 3y ago
Funny how brains work. For me the order of association was: 1. IKEA Product? 2. Something to do with VAX computers … 3. I had to think tens of seconds about what your comment refers to but I find it perfectly valid that you had a different order of association.
- arketyp 3y ago
  > 1. IKEA Product? In Swedish it means wax child.

dekhn 3y ago

Pluralized as Vaxen. And for some humor... https://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html https://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html

classichasclass 3y ago
Ah, halon. Fortunately never was around when we had an activation, but I knew other people who kept their running shoes on.