[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

bill bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 18:36:45 EST 2023


On 2/14/2023 4:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.
> 

I have never watched the show (an never will) or the original but I
have to ask.
How does an underage nerd going to college afford something like that?
How did he get a dorm room by himself?  Where is he going that the dorm
rooms are that big?  And the list goes on and on and on.
But then, that's probably why I don't watch any of this crap on TV.

bill





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