[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Dave Froble]

On 2/14/2023 6:49 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
>

I didn't watch the show when it was on TV.  A few years ago I started, boredom I 
guess, watching some youtube pieces.  I have to admit, some of the scenes were 
hilarious.  I still don't have a TV, and would not watch the crap that is normal 
on TV, but, I have to say, some of "The Big Bang Theory" really had some funny 
scenes.

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