>F. Alfredo Rego wrote:

> >I just got an interesting message (which appears to be private, so
> I'll
> >bypass the sender's name):
>
> >>I'll certainly second that re: the hp3000 but - don't forget the
> 1000!  It
> >>still
> >>hasn't been replaced by anything that will do that much work that
> fast, and
> >>still be friendly to its keepers.

> >I began my HP-related career with the 2100 (the predecessor of the
> 1000) in

> >the early 1970s.  I love that machine so much that I still have one.
> I
> >even brought it from Guatemala to Sun Valley in 1988.
>
> >So, I can certainly relate to these feelings.

Was that a 2100A, 2100S, or a 2100MX?In the late 70's we put a program
in core, and shipped a 2100A across the country in a van
and it ran with no problems for 4 months.  (The disk wasn't large enough
to both load the program
and collect the data we needed.)

Warren