Notice, of course, the attire of the period worn by the operators!!

Peace, man!!!

Tom Madigan
Media, PA

>>> Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> Friday, August 27, 1999 2:49:31 PM >>>
Last night, Mark Klein forwarded me some digital camera pictures he took a
while back of one of the very first promotional booklets for the HP
System/3000. I've cleaned them up a bit and mounted them at:

          http://aics-research.com/first3k.html 

I believe the booklet to date from about 1972, but I'm not sure about that.
It could be as late as 1974, but I doubt it.

Under any circumstance, although the machine is tiny and slow by today's
standards, to me, it looks a lot more like a computer ought to look, not like
these little square boxes that you hide under a table nowadays. Indeed, the
top image on the fourth picture down, the one labeled "System/3000 Features",
reminds me much of the era of the movie, "2001," when engineers in
button-down white shirts with narrow black ties were "cool", when all of this
was new, and the equipment was massive and had some philosophical weight to
it.

Wirt Atmar