27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
11:56 a.m.
Tim wrote about HP 2000 Time Shared BASIC:
Seems most folks used 2000A on a dual cpu 2100S setup
with dial in
terminals.
2000A only uses a single CPU, as did 2000B and 2000E.
The dual-CPU versions are 2000C, 2000C' (aka High-Speed 2000C),
2000F, and 2000/Access.
Perhaps it could have been an hp-2114c running ACCESS
2000E?
2000E and 2000/Access are two completely independent things. I'm
not sure whether 2000E would run on a 2114, but 2000/Access will
not, as it requires two 2100 or two 21MX (M- or E-series) CPUs.
On our setup with the single 2114 box, we did not have
to login.
Everyone shared the same disk storage area. I don't recall anyone having
a username at all. there were just the 4 (2 crt, tty, and card reader)
terminals. I recall folks kept forgetting to clear the current program
before typing in a new one and then getting a mix of two programs. I
don't recall the commands, but it seems to me you could be on a crt and
tell the system to read from the card reader, then run a stack of cards
and the program would be loaded into your memory intead of just being
run and output to the printer.
That doesn't sound like any of the 2000 TSB variants. More likely it
was a standalone multi-user BASIC.
I do recall that stored files that started with an
"!" were hidden from
listings.
That also doesn't sound like 2000 TSB.
Eric