26 Mar
2004
26 Mar
'04
1:42 p.m.
Quothe Jay West, from writings of Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:18:17PM -0600:
I think I may have heard someone mention, perhaps in
private email, that the
HP3000 was a popular replacement for HP2000 TimeShared BASIC systems. Is
this true? Did it have multiuser BASIC? Any other languages? Did you have a
The HP 3000 Series III that I worked with years ago ran HP's MPE-IV OS,
and the programs for it were written in COBOL.
choice of different OS's on the same hardware? And
more importantly, did any
of the 3000's have blinkenlights? :) I know nothing about the 3000 stuff.
Yes, it was a beautiful machine in a rack about five or six feet wide,
complete with blinkenlights; to look at it one could tell that a
company such as what HP once was, manufacured it---it's appearance
gave one the impression of solid reliability---not Fiorinaesque
Flimsiness (TM). The disk drives for it used removable disk packs, in
a disk farm consisting of many nearly washing-machine-sized chasis and
the mag tape drives were mounted horizontally, built into large
slanted tables.
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