[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Scott Dorsey]

gah4  <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>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 del=
>ivery of a main frame in his dorm. What got rolled in was a VAX-6000-420 wi=
>th three racks of disk storage.=20
>
>I don't think a 370/168 fit in many dorm rooms.

I had an 11/34 in a dorm room and the RA kept insisting it was a refrigerator
and you weren't allowed to have two refrigerators in one room.  I claimed it
was a heating appliance.

>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 no=
>t allowed
>in dorms, but inefficient computer are.  They kept the room warm!

I think {well-connected-site}!inhp4!akgua!gatech!notavax was one of those,
in a dorm room.
--scott
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