[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-02-04 11:19, Single Stage to Orbit 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

Meh. I had a PDP-8 in my student room while at University. Usually on 
24/7. The noise eventually just becomes a non-issue.

At the University itself, I usually hang around in the computer room 
with two DEC-2060, two VAX-8650 and two PDP-11/70. Although the computer 
room were in fact divided into two separate rooms with a door between 
them. But that was a fair amount of noise. And then the cooling system 
on top of that.

   Johnny