David? ?Yes,? our? ?hp 2000? had? it? that? we? ct? at Computer? Exchange in phx.
?a? FORTRAN? that? was written in Basic? indeed!? it? was? an add on? not? something that?
came? with the hp timeshare? system? ?you had? to procure? from? OMSI.?I have? some old?
store? tapes? that? should? have? the OMSI? FORTRAN in a000 where? we kept? it. but? no?
way? currently? to? get it? off? ?a? we? do not? have? a? tape? drive on a? 2000
system.... there is? fake 200? that? runs? on the? pc? as? an emulator but? ? ?heh!? no?
tape? drive? and? due? to? ?old? company? files and? sp,e of ,my personal? files? ? i
would NOT? loan? the? tape? out.?we? had a massive? bbs? ?system that? ran on the 2000
also? you? could? configure? 100? separate? bbs boards? with their own owners? and? ? set
ups? amazing? at the time. plus? an online? chat? system? with? many levels? of? powers
and super powers on it.?there? was also? a powerful email system? a? voting and polling?
system and? more..? ??this? also? went? over to the? hp 3000 and we? enhanced? it? ?
?even? further???ok? I? will? quit? rambling ...?If? we? ever? ?get? a? way? to? read?
tapes? ? for? the? 2000 and? 3000? i will be able? to get these? back on line? as? well
as? extract? the OMSI FORTRAN?if? you are? not? going to keep the manual we? would? love
it? ?for the SMECC museum's? HP? section in our? Museum Project? here in AZ.?i can be?
reached at couryhouse at aol.com????
In a message dated 11/19/2021 12:28:20 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:?
Like many, I used an HP 2000 TSB system in high school to first learn about programming.
Wanting to learn more than just BASIC, I soon discovered there was a program on the system
that let you write and run FORTRAN programs. All these years later I can't remember
anything more than that and haven't seen anything more on it since then until
recently.?While clearing out my storage space I came across an old binder with a photocopy
of a manual. Looking though it I soon realized it was from my high school computer class
and described the system for running FORTRAN. So now I have a name at least and a copy of
a manual, but haven't yet found anything more and hope that someone here might be able
to shine some light and supply more about it.?The manual says it was known as OSMI 2000
FORTRAN and was a "series of programs written in the BASIC language which run short
FORTRAN programs" on an HP 2000 BASIC system. Anyone heard of this
before??Thanks.?David
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