I once worked for an organisation which used an HP1000
for a front office dealing room system.

The original application was prototyped in BASIC on an
HP9845 and ported to the HP1000 where it was
progressively redeveloped in FORTRAN.

The application performed data capture and enquiries,
and included a broadcast update process which would
automatically update "through" currently displayed
data.

The captured data was sent via a home-grown link to an
HP3000 for back office processing. The HP3000 then
used SNA LU6.2 to send it on to an IBM mainframe and
thence to the outside world.

The HP1000 application displayed in "windows" running
on HP2627 emulations (NOT on PC's). It was designed to
reduce keystrokes and included features like
"auto-complete".

It was blisteringly fast and completely resilient -
which is more than can be said for the systems that
replaced it.

Martin Mason

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 October 2000 19:41
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP1000

Dave asks:

> Are there any HP1000 owners left?

If the question is, "Are there any owners left?", then
the answer is yes. I'm
still here -- and plan on being for a few more years.
I developed systems on
the HP1000 before they were called the HP1000s, first
on the HP2116, HP's
first computer, then later on the HP2100 as a separate
project, and then
later still on a number of HP21MXs for other purposes
yet.

If the question is, "Do we still own an HP1000?", the
answer is no. We
disposed of our last 1000 years ago. We changed over
to primarily supporting
the HP3000 in 1977 and bought our first HP3000 in
1979. That essentially
brought the era of our association with the HP1000 to
an end at that time.

Wirt Atmar

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