[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

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On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 5:48:07 AM UTC-8, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Don't know how many people here watch "Young Sheldon" which is a spinoff of "The Big Bang Theory". Anyway, last night we see Sheldon Cooper take delivery of a main frame in his dorm. What got rolled in was a VAX-6000-420 with three racks of disk storage. 

I don't think a 370/168 fit in many dorm rooms.

I do remember stories from around 2000 of running big Sun systems, or other
big floor standing processors, in dorm rooms.  It seems that heaters are not allowed
in dorms, but inefficient computer are.  They kept the room warm!

Anyway, I like "Young Sheldon" much more than Big Bang.  For actual nerds,
many of the Big Bang jokes aren't quite as funny.  (Not that I watch it all that
often, though.) 

But okay, Sheldon was supposed to be in high school in the late 1980's, and college
in the early 1990s.   By the 1990's, VAX 11/780 and 11/750 were still around, but
also the early floor standing MicroVAX, and desktop MicroVAX.  The 11/730 is
probably dorm sized, with one disk drive.  Though little SCSI drives were around
by then, and would be nice for a VAX.