26 Mar
2004
26 Mar
'04
1:18 p.m.
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
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.
Curiousity biting me :)
Jay
26 Mar
26 Mar
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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5:18 p.m.
early tape drives were in racks the later one you speak of was in a table
sorta roll around cab....
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Subject: Re: HP3000 interest?
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.
--
Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other
animals:
All Rights Reserved | My VAX | an unnatural belief
that we're above Nature
&
www.rddavis.org | runs VMS & | her other
creatures, using dogma to justify
such
410-744-4900 | doesn't crash!| beliefs and to
justify much human cruelty.
5:17 p.m.
the hp 3000 did not have as many things displayed as the 2100... only one
register.. and only on the series III or earlier, the later boxes were
pretty much butt ugly.
the novel thing we have here at the museum is the CE maintance panel for
the 3000.. it has every possible part of the machine displayed with lights
and you can also single step the beast with people logged on!
many mnay of my years were spent on the 3000 and we would like to get a hp
3000 for the museum here.
preferably close to Arizona but...... would buy one in new York even!
cash or trade! bring it on!
I have my tape set .....still!
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: HP3000 interest?
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
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.
Curiousity biting me :)
Jay
27 Mar
27 Mar
12:52 a.m.
did any of the 3000's have blinkenlights? :)
I know nothing about the 3000 stuff.
I worked on HP's 3000'th 3000, sold to GE. MPE was a real joy
to use. This was the first time I used Instant Messaging (the TELL
command), and we're talking 24 years ago for that!
Personal belief is that the 3000 was a quite popular architecture
that lasted for a number of years, like the DEC VAX series, so
there may be a lot of different configurations.
John A.
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