You know you're getting old when...
I really "mis-remembered" on this one. Turns out the contest that I was remembering, started in 1988 and the winners of the contest were announced at the 1989 Interex in San Francisco.
The winner was the Whitman Electronic Mail system. So any other menu system that you may remember using wasn't part of our contest. :)
Sorry for the confusion. To be fair this was 30 years ago, and I did remember to search Walla Walla, as I knew it was in the What's Up Doc article associated with the winner from 1989. I just didn't remember the entire context. LOL.
http://www.robelle.com/ftp/newsletter/1989/w1989-08.txt
Neil Armstrong
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Date: Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 11:35
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Menu
Hi Neil,
"Select" does not ring a bell.
I did use software in the Interex CSL quite often.
I know it was not a VESoft product.
So it might have been the highly ranked one that you are thinking of.
I would be interested in trying Select to see how it compares.
-John
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Menu
There are two possibilities here, we at Robelle provided Select which was our own menu system which was part of our Qlib.
The second possibility there was one menu system that I believe won or was highly ranked in a contributed library contest that we held and that may be what you remember as well.
There is also the menuing system as part if Security/3000.
We still have Select but I don’t know about the contest winner menu system.
Neil
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:19 AM John Sommer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
That is sounding right.
That is what I remember.
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Sent: Thu, May 3, 2018 10:10 am
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Menu
It's been a long time but iirc Robelle had a freebie called MENU that would do this stuff.
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Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 7:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Menu
Hi Ralph,
Thanks for the suggestion. That is not the one I used, although it might work.
I know it was not a HP product. It was some sort of freeware. If I can't locate it,
I will surely give Easytime a try.
-John
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Sounds like the old HP Easytime program?
Ralph Bagen
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Subject: [HP3000-L] HP3000 Menu
A long time ago on a HP3000 far, far away ...
... I used to have a freeware (Interex?) menu system that allowed
me to setup custom menu actions. For example, it allowed users to issue MPE commands to
see their jobs, printer activity, etc, without having access to the command prompt.
It would even allow nested menus that went several levels deep. It was very simple,
but at the same time, very useful. Does anyone recall this menu system?
I don't recall the name of it, so I am having trouble trying to locate it on the Internet.
Thanks for reactivating any long dormant memories.
May the fork be with you.
-John
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