These were cool to look at and look at the storage sizes available.  One question though, Where are the people today that are in the pictures?  Where is Fred White and Jon Bales?

Tom Renz

>>> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> 08/27/99 12:49PM >>>

Last night, Mark Klein forwarded me some digital camera pictures he took a
while back of one of the very first promotional booklets for the HP
System/3000. I've cleaned them up a bit and mounted them at:

          http://aics-research.com/first3k.html

I believe the booklet to date from about 1972, but I'm not sure about that.
It could be as late as 1974, but I doubt it.

Under any circumstance, although the machine is tiny and slow by today's
standards, to me, it looks a lot more like a computer ought to look, not
like
these little square boxes that you hide under a table nowadays. Indeed, the
top image on the fourth picture down, the one labeled "System/3000
Features",
reminds me much of the era of the movie, "2001," when engineers in
button-down white shirts with narrow black ties were "cool", when all of
this
was new, and the equipment was massive and had some philosophical weight to
it.

Wirt Atmar