[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-04, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-02-03 at 19:30 -0800, gah4 wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think the noise would be a masssive sleep-killer for most people. Not
> a big problem for people like me who are deaf :-D

You get used to some noises and it depends on how annoying the noise is.

At a former employer many years ago, I took another employee into the
computing area to help with something or other and they wanted to know
what the loud noise was as we walked down the corridor towards my office.

I had to think for a few seconds before I realised they were talking
about the air conditioning unit. I then realised air conditioning units
had simply become background noise for me and others and they didn't
intrude on my ability to think or concentrate in any way. :-)

It did make me think for a while afterwards about the things we humans
can adapt to without even realising it...

Simon.

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