Evan points out:
> <http://www.computerworld.com/home/features.nsf/all/980803hayes>  to see
> Computerworld columnist Frank Hayes' Top 100 IT products of the century.
> HP3000 is in 37th place; where's Unix?

Where it belongs?

BTW, in researching a note I sent to Frank Hayes (discussing the omission
of the Burroughs stack-based computer line), I stumbled across a
good site for some early manuals/brochures on: Burroughs B5000, IBM 704,
and the Burroughs 205.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/images/manuals/

For the Burroughs B5000:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/images/manuals/b5000/descrip/descrip.html
and (different material)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/images/manuals/b5000/news/b5000_news.html

The B5000 was apparently introduced in 1961!

BTW, for those who don't know, the HP 3000 has a very strong resemblance
to the Burroughs stack-based computers (particularly the B5500/B6500).
When I saw my first HP 3000, my first thought was: wow...a baby Burroughs!

Sadly, Burroughs was as good at selling them as HP was at selling
the HP 3000 in the early 90s.  We used to say of Burroughs' salesreps:
"they like to keep their customers on the edge of surliness".

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