oh my .... Gavin you are correct! 20 years..... wow..

dialing again, the controls of the way back machine......

there was a great program called Phantasm that Gavin had that would trick hp
basic out!
sure made my life easier!

remember...  I did allot in basic, it was actually my language of choice and
continuous use... and  the ONLY language I could use on the  HP 2000 Access
system Thus, when  we moved to the HP 3000,  I would modify  programs in
other languages and recompiled them gaining enough knowledge to get my self
in further trouble!

As  a young kid did some FORTRAN in the really dark ages,  in the 60's


Our systems were  unique as they were NEVER under HP maintance. I found I
could usually fix a series III in about the same amount of time it  took to
explain the problem to HP and log the call. Those that remember  my stash
there  remember the  stacks of HP boards.  It was cool, I had extender
boards and  schematics so I could even repair boards,  build new devices to
plug into the bus ( more so in the hp 2000 days than the 3000)

The wonder of all wonders was when the last  series  III was  off maintence
here in Arizona,  the  HP service office gave me the  full blown  plug in
front panel  that the CE could lug to your site  ( not  to be confused with
the little front  panel that was attached to the series III)  This big panel
would plug into the series  III or a series II or a series I (I think never
tried this  option, there was another board included that was used for this
I believe)

What was fun was you could single step the HP 3000 and see all  information
displayed.  It was indeed hell on the users that  might be logged on when
you went into single step mode though.....

we have this front panel at the museum but alas do not have a  3000 to hook
it to.  still on the lookout for a series 2 or a series 3 hp3000.

When we went to running the  40 series  hp 3000 it was boring really from
the hardware standpoint... no , the  neat front panel would not interface to
it, peekaboo  did not  work on the  ports... sigh an era was over.

Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Full screen editor


> Ed writes:
> > ( for those that have recently joined us in the last 10 years[...]
>
> I'm afraid it's more like 20 now Ed :-)
>
> G.
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