[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Wed, 2023-02-08 at 18:42 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> Well, I ceased to be a "normal" student pretty quickly, and for most 
> everyone else it was also the case that they only sat in front of a 
> terminal, in a terminal room, and nowhere near the actual hardware.
> 
> The fans on the -8650 are the most fun/noisy/windy things I've 
> experienced. The -2060 is larger, but less windy.
> 
> The PDP-11/70 is comparatively speaking almost silent. :-D
> 

HP servers are /awful/. Sounds like a jet taking off on bootup.

> > 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.
> 
> :-D
> It was never that crazy in Sweden. Although, there was this one 
> VAX-11/782 that sat in a container for quite a while, with dubious 
> papers, and an intended destination somewhere in Russia. Never got
> there in the end, but that was a funny one...

Yes, didn't the Russians make DEC machine clones? Right down to the
message left on the etched masking on the one of the MicroVAx chips n
Russian "When you care enough to copy the very best".
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens