Nick writes:
> > I was wondering if anyone has an HP 300 ("Amigo", built around
> > 1978-1980) that they don't want any more?
...
> I remember remarking at
> the time that HP would have done much better putting its
> investment into a low cost 3000 and instead of spending money to
> program the 300, put it into a better BASIC and RPG for the 3000.

As it turns out, they did.  IIRC, the 3000/30 and 3000/33 benefitted
from the hardware of the 300.  The systems programming language
(which I, too, remember as being SPL II) was also used on the HP 3000
(for COBOL II and VPLUS), so there was some crossover.

I think our own Fred White worked on the development of the 300 for
awhile.

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