In article <[log in to unmask]>,
 Sam Deleese <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
]Subject:      Re: HP4000? Ever heard of?
 
]In article <[log in to unmask]> "Rudderow, Evan"
]<[log in to unmask]> writes:
]>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 09:19:00 EST
]>From: "Rudderow, Evan" <[log in to unmask]>
]>Subject: HP4000? Ever heard of?
]>Mike Mcgarry <[log in to unmask]> asked:
]>>Someone recently told me that there was an HP4000 system.  It was
]>>listed that they had HP3000 experience and that they also had
]>>HP4000 experience.
]>>Has anyone heard of such a beast?  If so, what is/was it?
]>And I wrote:
]>>I have!
]>>You know of the strengths the HP3000 possesses for business data
]>>processing,
]>>and you've probably heard of the real time features of the HP1000.  The
]>>HP4000 was a system that combined the features of both (i.e. 1000 + 3000 =
]>>4000).  It was designed for real-time business applications such as stock
]>>trading and automated tellers.  If I recall, only three were ever sold.
]>>;-)
]>> -- Evan
]>Oops!
]>Tell me someone -- what's the proper net etiquette in this situation?  After
]>all, I made it up -- I just couldn't resist the 1000 + 3000 = 4000 angle.
]>SO sorry.
]> -- Evan
]Ouch!  Maybe you can help me, I'm having some trouble getting this hook out of
]my mouth!  Well done, you caught me...hook...line... and sinker!
 
Me too - nice job!!  I can't remember the name of the company, but while
trying to telemarket a package in the early 1980's, I stumbled onto a shop
with an hp3000 Series II running a bank teller application (credit union?)
with (if memory serves) over 80 terminals, under 2 second response time and
all written in compiled Basic!
 
I found out they had built their own I/O processor which attached to the
main channel (like a tape drive), and wrote a driver for it.  For a single
purpose machine it sounds very kinky at first, then more and more credible
as you consider it.
 
I was hoping your post was going to eventually lead me to where this 'sliver
of genius' had turned up lately.  Again, congratulations! :-)
 
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Regards  --  Tony B. Shepherd  --  [log in to unmask]