[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-02-14 13:45, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 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

Lots of weird stuff. However, as far as I can tell (see):

Right most rack contains four RA60.
I *think* the next rack (second from right) are four RA8x drives.
Third from right rack contains 8 RA9x drives.

Then you have the VAX 6000-420 (if I read the nameplate right).

Rack on the left looks like it might have an RA60 on top and an RA8x below.

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

No. Definitely no RM drives in there, or anything beyond RA.

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

Yeah. Definitely VT420.

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

Well, the weird lightning on the VAX when power goes on is rather fake 
as well, and people seem to have been creative putting on coloring on 
various buttons on the RA drives as well. All looking rather odd.

   Johnny