[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Tony Priborsky]

On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 4:45:27 AM UTC-8, 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 
> 
> 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/

I think the topics in this region got the correct RA series identifiers.   The RA8X and RA9X all had the same front panel (with run/stop, unit number, and A/B ports) so they would be hard to tell but the labels would say.

There can be NO RM series disks on the VAX6000.   Those discs were Massbus devices and the massbus disappeard with the VAX9000.  [I can't recall if the VAX8XXX (Nautilus) family had a MBA (Massbus Adapter) but maybe...  By that time clusters were pretty well engrained in the culture so most shipped with CIs and HSCs ]