cctalk Digest, Vol 20, Issue 24

From: "GerardCJAT" <gerardcjat at free.fr> Subject: Who, on this list, Owns / Collects / Plays with an HP1000 A or L series ?? Except for the time I spent as a system manager on a couple of 2000/Access systems, in college, the A-series was my introduction to the 1000 line. I spent several years programming that - all A600s, except at the end when the A400 came out, and all in Fortran-77 under RTE-A. Industrial control systems, mostly, although I did right for in-house use a terminal control package (similar in concept, but by no means execution, to termcap), a full-screen hex file editor, a little mail system, etc.. It really seemed like you could do almost anything you wanted as far as system calls, etc. communication (using Class-IO), etc. I never ventured in to assembly on it. I hated the full-screen editor (it would write a full screenful of data to the 26xx terminal, which you would then locally then cause it to read it back off the screen), which is why I wrote my own WordStar-like editor. I also ended up with a really nice fully decked-out A600 system, with a couple of terminals, the built-in disk plus a 7912, plenty of memory, and an 8-port mux. Of ourse, like an idiot, I gave all that away to the Salvation Army (the wife couldn't understand its intrinsic value like I did). ~~ Mark Moulding