That's the story I'd always heard. It also explains why the date & time on
the old Series II/III's defaulted to midnight, November 1, 1972.


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas M. Root [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP's Multi-OS strategy includes MPE


IIRC the first customer delivery of a 3000 (MPE A.0.0) was on
November 1, 1972.

"Bailie, Jack" wrote:
>
> Wirt's ad at http://aics-research.com/wsjad.html
> <http://aics-research.com/wsjad.html>  says:
>
> "...invented 25 years ago"
>
> If we quote the number of years let's get the number right.  I seem to
> remember celebrating the 25th anniversary several years ago at one of
those
> noisy parties at INTEREXnn (before it was HPWorld) - I don't remember
which
> one. Lars said it's 28 years. Or say "over 25 years ago" if you like round
> numbers (is 25 round).

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Tom Root
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