[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Tue, 2023-02-07 at 16:08 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > 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.

Human nature, isn't it, get used to any situation.

> 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.

We never had direct access to the machines. Instead we could only
access them on our VT220 terminals wired up to terminal multiplexers
across the various campuses scattered all over Portsmouth (in UK). It
happens this is also the main Naval base for the Royal Navy too. 

Reminds me of the night I broke down right by the Navy base and got two
men with machine guns in my face :-D. Remember, back in these days they
were right to be concerned with threats from the Irish provos. 
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens