It seems that many of us still active in the HPe3000 world (mis)spent some
of our younger days in the vicinity of the HP2000, in my case as an
educational analyst for a large school board in Montreal in the early '70's.
Our HP3000C (later Access) had a massive 32K memory and served as the
central processing facility for all the students taking Computer Science or
Data Processing courses in about 25 high schools, both in our board
territory and in that of some other less-technically-endowed school boards.

Students created their Basic programs locally on terminals (one per school),
punching them out on paper tape. They then dialed our central HP2000 (I
think it had 8 ports) to process and test them.

The Eastern Canadian marketing headquarters for HP at the time were in the
back of the Montreal factory where HP1000(?) process control units were
assembled - general purpose computers were not HP's bread-and-butter at the
time.

However, by the mid-70's, the HP2K was being used to support quite
sophisticated processing needs. For example, a local college used one for
the online arena registration of its students utilizing a modified package
developed in California. (One thing I remember in particular about the HP
environment at the time was the large inventory of free application programs
available thru Cupertino).

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