BTI 8000 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Jan 2008

...
  Ron Crandall. 
...
  Since much of the team came from
 the same school in Oregon and worked on the same system, the 8000
 suffered a classic case of second system syndrome. 
"OS-3, the Oregon State Open Shop Operating System																		
James W. Meeker, Ronald Crandall, Fred A. Dayton, G. Rose"

...
  Also keep in mind that BTI's bread-and-butter
wasn't the 8000, but the
 5000, which was essentially a clone of the HP 2100 and ran HP software... 

eeek! too much synchronicity going on there.

HP 2000, BTI, OS-3

All systems I've been researching for a while. No wonder the names sounded
familiar.

I have seen the BTI 5000 front panel, looks like a simplified HP1000 one.