At the risk of starting a "When we was young" thread.....

The second HP3000 I ever worked on (the first was a 37 - Mighty Mouse)
was a desk Format Series 48.
It was swiftly upgraded to a 58. As this was a board swap and memory
upgrade (from 4MB to a whopping 6MB), it remained as a Desk format.

Now, one of the embarrassing moments in HP3000 History occurred when a
certain Chris Davies (now sadly off on an Internet tangent) sat at a
customers '48. He crossed his left leg over his right knee, and his shoe
sole accidentally hit the power switch nestling in it's recess.

Quelle Horreur! Major panic amongst users et al!
But, typically for the HP3000, after switching back on, the system came
to life and no data was lost.

Chris developed the C.Davies Modification, which consisted of a piece of
card taped over the Switch recess, and we had one fitted immediately
after hearing this story.

Regards

Neil




-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:16 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Lanic Card for HP3000 Micro GX Required


Lee Gunter writes:

> IIRC, the series 58 was a desk-like configuration, too, and I thought
that
>  was the coolest thing I'd ever seen at the time (too long ago).  I
wanted
>  one -- until I thought about where I'd keep paper clips and my coffee
cup.
>  (Art -- I think you ought to push the folks at Boyd's to get you one
:-).

To my knowledge, only the Series 33, 44 and 64 were ever manufactured in
the
desk configuration.

And to my knowledge, only Ken Nutsford and we have the last working
Series
33's in the world, although we only use ours as a desk. I too brag that
I have
the most expensive executive desk in town (besides, the Formica top is
as good
as the day it was delivered, twenty-two years ago).

Ken's 33 is in New Zealand; ours is in New Mexico. Perhaps the secret to
long-
life for machinery is to be kept in some place named "new".

Wirt Atmar