Wirt writes:

> I used to write articles for "Creative Computing," one of the very
> first PC user magazines

Drat.  Neither the Jan-Feb/1997 nor the Sept-Oct/1978 issues I kept
has one of these articles. :(

> (although PC's weren't even called PC's then, but
> rather microcomputers).

While on the one hand it's easy to see why, on the other hand they
were probably the ultimate in "personal" computers.

And just to keep the HP connection, page 13 of that '97 issue is a
full-page at by HP targeted towards the education market, but claiming

   "...we've developed terminal-oriented computer systems and applications
    packages to meet instructional and administrative needs."

Later, on page 18 (in the section entitled the "Compleat Computer
Catalogue"), there's a bit on "small computer systems from HP."
No specific system is mentioned, but the dead giveaway is mention
of IMAGE/1000 and QUERY.

Actually, the HP 3000 *is* mentioned in that issue, but only in passing;
it's on "The Computer Tree" showing names of pioneers in the roots, a few
early machines on the trunk at the base, then branches naming all kinds of
machines.  The HP 2000 and 3000 machines are mentioned, but ironically
(given the previous paragraph) not the 1000.

FWIW.

--Glenn