Origin of the term minicomputer (was Re: PDP-1 as minicomputer

I've taken a look... It looks like standard HP9830 BASIC, with commands from the plotter ROM. The user manual for the plotter ROM is available from the Australian museum site (http://www.hpmuseum.net/) as a .pdf file. That site is not easy to find your way aroumd, I find the easiest thing to do is to follow the 'documents' (or is it 'documentation', I forget, but it's pretty clear) link from the homepage and read down that list until you find the manual you want/ The HP9830 plotter ROM is the HP11271 IIRC, so search the list of manuals for that. It's pretty obvious... It should then be fairly easy to traslate this program for another machine. Whether or not you'd want to is another matter. Personally, I enjoy some old games on the origjnal hardware, but see little interest on them running on modern machines, or even under emulators. We know youcan get much 'better' games on modern hardware, the fun is seeing what you could do with a machine i nthe early 70's. But anyway... I think there is an HP9830 emulator. Again, I've never run it (I doubt I have anythign it would run on...). I suspect that would run the program... -tony