-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Darnell
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:01 AM
To: 'Martin G Mason'
Subject: RE: HP1000
Wow again.
You mentioned the HP9845 I remember that one! When I went to work at the
metrology lab of the local rocket factory, we had applications on:
9845 - BASIC system with two tape cart. drives, display, and keyboard all in
one unit.
9825
9826
9807 - the lab was sold about 12 of these as purportedly really good
workstations to communicate with the HP1000 in real time as instrument
controllers and data entry devices. Too bad it couldn't do any of that!
There was no network support, and the available terminal emulator had a
"lower-level" feature set that couldn't handle block mode correctly. This
sewing-machine looking product of the HP Corvallis calculator division ran a
single-user variant (varied being a key) of UNIX, and displayed it on an
orange flat-panel screen.
HP85 - Possibly once the worlds best BASIC language instrument controller -
looked like a programmable calculator. Not very fast, but it did the job!
HP87 - immediate descendant of the HP85
We re-engineered the entire business process and moved everything except
automated test and instrument control to the HP1000. We should have started
a museum.
Anyone remember the Burroughs 3700? The half-meg disk drive stood four feet
tall and had four platters. System would crash every time there was a
lightening storm within 25 miles (Mountain Home AFB.)
-dtd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin G Mason [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 4:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: HP1000
> Importance: High
>
>
> I once worked for an organization which used an HP1000
> for a front office dealing room system.
>
> The original application was prototyped in BASIC on an
> HP9845 and ported to the HP1000 where it was
> progressively redeveloped in FORTRAN.
>
> The application performed data capture and enquiries,
> and included a broadcast update process which would
> automatically update "through" currently displayed
> data.
>
> The captured data was sent via a home-grown link to an
> HP3000 for back office processing. The HP3000 then
> used SNA LU6.2 to send it on to an IBM mainframe and
> thence to the outside world.
>
> The HP1000 application displayed in "windows" running
> on HP2627 emulations (NOT on PC's). It was designed to
> reduce keystrokes and included features like
> "auto-complete".
>
> It was blisteringly fast and completely resilient -
> which is more than can be said for the systems that
> replaced it.
>
> Martin Mason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 October 2000 19:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP1000
>
> Dave asks:
>
> > Are there any HP1000 owners left?
>
> If the question is, "Are there any owners left?", then
> the answer is yes. I'm
> still here -- and plan on being for a few more years.
> I developed systems on
> the HP1000 before they were called the HP1000s, first
> on the HP2116, HP's
> first computer, then later on the HP2100 as a separate
> project, and then
> later still on a number of HP21MXs for other purposes
> yet.
>
> If the question is, "Do we still own an HP1000?", the
> answer is no. We
> disposed of our last 1000 years ago. We changed over
> to primarily supporting
> the HP3000 in 1977 and bought our first HP3000 in
> 1979. That essentially
> brought the era of our association with the HP1000 to
> an end at that time.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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