[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Slo]

John Updike's "Roger's version" (1986). I have these passages highlighted
 in my copy, I used to be so impressed:

“‘I’d be happy to tutor him, if we can find a time. My hours are kind of 
funny, with the time-sharing and all. For my graphics I have to split a 
VAX 8600 with a girl doing pattern recognitions.”

The sixth floor holds the guts of the place — the massed ranks of 
CPUs — VAX 785s, Symbolics 3600 LISP machines, and the Cube’s own design,
the MU—churning and crunching

Like Dale with his animation graphics, Amy needs to use the Venus, the 
VAX 8600, which costs four hundred thousand dollars; to have undivided 
access to the machine, he and she must schedule away from each other.

The phantom configuration’s anatomy, fitted into the ambiguous three 
dimensions of the tortured, abstract pattern, appears complete to Dale;
he believes that, with higher resolving power than the VAX 8600 can summon,
knuckles and even fingernails and cuticles would emerge, just as the 
tendrilous graphics of a Mandelbrot set can be infinitely enhanced.

Greedily, impatiently, his fingertips ask the VAX 8600 to repeat 
its gigantic loop once more.