[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Neil Rieck]

On Monday, February 13, 2023 at 1:03:06 PM UTC-5, LakeGator wrote:
> On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 8:48:07 AM UTC-5, Neil Rieck wrote: 
> > Don't know how many people here watch "Young Sheldon" which is a spinoff of "The Big Bang Theory". Anyway, last night we see Sheldon Cooper take delivery of a main frame in his dorm. What got rolled in was a VAX-6000-420 with three racks of disk storage. I guess Chuck Lorre and staff didn't know this was a mini (or perhaps they did but just liked the sound of Sheldon say "I need a mainframe") 
> > 
> > Neil Rieck 
> > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 
> > http://neilrieck.net 
> > http://neilrieck.net/OpenVMS.html 
> The one minute scene is at or near https://youtu.be/GhNh6GgNpVo

Thanks for the video clip

Definitively different racks of storage. At least two of the racks contain RA80 series drives:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/brochures/DEC-RA-FamilyOfWinchesterDiskDrives.pdf

Not sure about the other racks (could be RM series drives like RM03)

The monitor looks like a VT420 and is sitting on an Orange manual so VMS-4

According to this article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS ) VAX-6000 was released with VMS-5 so Chuck Lorre's people messed up

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net/