Howard Hoxsie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> In my former life at a large Northwest forest products company which shall
> remain nameless, I went through the y2k validation process for MPE/V
> machines (42's, 52's and 70's) and discovered that releases 3p and 4o of
> MPE/V are compliant in terms of system clocks and COBOL compiler.  Other
s/w
> I don't know about but they and other companies will be running their
> businesses on these machines into next year.  I guess we'll see...<grin>

That is correct. Actually Release 31 (or maybe Release 32) which came out
between 2P and 3P is supposed to be Y2K compliant. But I don't think you can
actually obtain it. Wouldn't it be really nice if HP made this available to
all of those sites that are "going to be off of the system by the end of the
year." It could possibly be distributed by Interex as part of the Open
Source initiative.

>
> If you indeed have it in your living room, then Stan is most likely right
on
> with guessing what model it is, the models I worked on would more
> appropriately occupy a full-size stall in your garage...<another grin>

Oh, I don't know. If you are not much on interior decorating a Series 42/52
might make a nice end table.  :-)

Doug.

Doug Werth                                     Beechglen Development Inc.
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