On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:30 -0600, Jay West wrote:
It was written...
The first computer I ever used was an HP 200B,
TimeShare BASIC.
2000B I guess you mean?
Yeah, yeah. I left my good hands at work. <Grin>
The
notable thing about the log-in accounts was that they were all of the
pattern annn where a=alphabetic and n=numeric. The "A-triple-zero"
account, A000, was the Master Account, and files saved by that user were
accessible as read-only for all users. And, when user A000 saved a
BASIC program named "HELLO," that program was run automatically at
log-in for every user. Our HELLO program was very cool... eventually.
<Grin>
That's all definitely from the HP2000 TSB OS.
Indeed.
Any other
letter, followed by three zeros, was a Group Account, and
files saved by that account were read-only for any other account
starting with the same letter, i.e., other group members. Regular users
had an account that was not zero in the numeric part; ours was H455.
That account structuring scheme was odd enough that if you remember it,
you were almost certainly in the HP2000 realm...
I don't believe you were
using 2000B then, as I don't believe 2000B had the
group account feature. You've certainly ruled out 2000E by that statement.
Nah, it's encroaching senility. We *DID* start out with HP 2000B
TSB, but they upgraded the computer and OS software at some point... I
must be conflating the features. An absolute certainty is that we
started with a 2000B. (Note: in both of the references in this
paragraph, I have originally typed "200B," and had to go back. *SIGH*)
I think they ended up with an HB200F by the time they were done -- but I
was long gone, working with Control Data iron by then. (We did not have
the kind of organization which made use of Groups, having set everything
up with the 2000B...)
Thanks for your corrections. This stuff is in the FAR recesses of
the old gray matter. Wow... So you're running 2000s w/TSB? That is
most cool. Which models do you have?