OK, this is my last post to this thread -- I promise.  The discussion about the age of the HP3000 causes me some concern.  For the most part "old" does not equal "good" in most people's minds when discussing computers.  Since we aren't interested in getting into the kind of detailed discussion that would explain that the HP3000 of today is far different from its 16-bit ancestor, maybe it would be best to avoid the "28 years" stuff.  Maybe just say that it has "served reliably for years" or some such non-specific language.
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Subject: Re: HP's Multi-OS strategy includes MPE
Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 2:26PM

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IIRC the first customer delivery of a 3000 (MPE A.0.0) was on
November 1, 1972.

"Bailie, Jack" wrote:
>
> Wirt's ad at http://aics-research.com/wsjad.html
> <http://aics-research.com/wsjad.html>  says:
>
> "...invented 25 years ago"
>
> If we quote the number of years let's get the number right.  I seem to
> remember celebrating the 25th anniversary several years ago at one of
those
> noisy parties at INTEREXnn (before it was HPWorld) - I don't remember
which
> one. Lars said it's 28 years. Or say "over 25 years ago" if you like
round
> numbers (is 25 round).

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Tom Root
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