[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Scott Dorsey]

bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>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.

A computer?  In a dorm room?  Nobody would ever believe that.
--scott
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