hp2K and interex

On Friday, December 5, 2014 at 15:29, Jay West wrote: "Bowser" would be more accurate. ;-) Our small manufacturing company struggled in vain to use this program on DOS-III for a year back in 1975. The problem was that the virtual file system that it used was buggy, and periodically certain files (e.g., user program source files, our payroll data file, etc.) would be corrupted and lost. After reentering programs from listings for about the fourth time, we gave up and bought RTE and RTE BASIC (HP 92101A). (Rather than use native DOS-III files, this BASIC created a virtual TSB file system within a single DOS-III binary data file. So there was no DOS way to copy or back up individual BASIC files -- all you could do was back up the entire blob, but then you couldn't tell if a corruption had occurred until you attempted to run a BASIC program that used the virtual file in question. The failures appeared at random, and we never isolated or were able to reproduce failures on demand, which was very, very aggravating.) -- Dave