Hi Gilles and Jeff.
We have a similar story here at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
We got our HP around 1975-76 and are now winding it down as well, just 3 more applications to go.
Quite the awesome machine.
We will keep it running a few more years re: archive data etc.
Ed

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gilles Schipper
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] The last chapter...

Jeff, hopefully you'll keep (at least) lurking here.

Gilles Schipper
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On 2013-08-13, at 2:20 PM, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Just wrote this up for our campus newsletter.  What a ride!
> 
> Jeff
> 
>> A looooong time ago, an eternity in the fast-paced evolution of 
>> computers in the information age, UTC acquired their first 
>> Hewlett-Packard 3000 minicomputer with the intention of doing "online 
>> registration" of classes and processing of student grades.  The 
>> current system at the time involved an IBM mainframe, punched cards, 
>> and long lines at Mac Gym for class registration.  The first online 
>> registration was in the Spring of 1977 and it was carried off without 
>> a hitch.  The business affairs of the university -- from 
>> registration, grades, financial aid, housing, parking, accounts 
>> receivable, "RAP sheets" (Report of Academic Progress), and 
>> transcripts -- were carried out by various models, upgrades, and 
>> replacements of the original
>> HP3000 until it began to approach retirement by adoption of Banner in 
>> 2007.  Over the summer, the last remaining functions of the 3000 have 
>> been replaced by newer hardware/software, and the system is due to be 
>> shutdown later this year.  No one could have predicted a computer 
>> system to have played such a prominent role for thirty six years.  
>> How old is your "obsolete" phone?  :)
> 
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