[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[bill]

On 2/4/2023 4:55 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.
> 

Why didn't you just tell him it was a computer.  I seriously
doubt the school had any rules prohibiting computers in dorm
rooms.

bill