[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-02-15 00:36, bill wrote:
> 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.

I haven't watched it either. Just looked at that one minute clip on Youtube.

Obviously this is just a silly TV show, so the questions aren't really 
meaningful anyway, since it's all weird fiction.

   JOhnny