19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
2:45 a.m.
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:19 -0700, Richard wrote:
In article <007701c722d6$5076fef0$6500a8c0 at
BILLING>,
"Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org> writes:
The first computer I ever used was an HP 200B, TimeShare BASIC. 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>
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...
Peace,
Warren E. Wolfe
wizard at voyager.net
You wrote....
What I remember is that it logged you into a timesharing BASIC
environment. I remember that the standard library had a set of
programs that would teach you BASIC, called TUT01 through TUT25. They
were tutorials in the BASIC language. I imagine that this was a
standard software library that shipped with all the HP minis of the
time. I don't recall anything really about the operating environment
beyond that. I only used the HP for a few months before moving over
to the 11/70 and using BASIC-PLUS, but the HP is where I taught myself
to program with those TUTxx programs. That was me, but I've been informed by my
fellow users from the period
that it was actually a 2000! Sheesh, I feel stupid :-).
Tell me a bit about the system you used, and perhaps I can help.
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