"Eric Bender"  wrote
> IMHO HP should be leading the way in terms of pointing existing and
> potential customers towards the multitude of existing MPE
applications
> available to support virtually every conceivable field of interest.
>
> But they don't.
> Once upon a time, back in
> the days of the HP2000 (early '70's), HP maintained and distributed
a
> central directory of all known apps which would run on its
computers.

To my knowledge they still do.   And such lists are also available on
3kworld and elsewhere.
Such a list that (eventually) filters into a good many of the major
internet search engines is:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Systems/HP_3000/Business_Applications/

- Cortlandt