Those was my first computer equipment from HP that I worked with.
An 3000 series 33 under a table for the accounting department.
Didn't the 2647A have a 20x40 screen?
and Visicalc.
That must have been around 1980-1982

Thanks for refreshing my memory

Michael


On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:59:00 EST, Cecile Chi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>In a message dated 3/14/02 5:28:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< since their PCs are just clones of the IBM PC, >>
>
>Now, maybe, but I think HP had PCs before IBM invented the term.
>I used a 2647A with two tape drives, which could act as a terminal to the
>HP3000 and which also ran standalone using BASIC. I used graphics
>software, loaded from the internal tape drive, to drive a plotter and
>graphics printer.  We used HP125s with Visicalc and word processing
>software standalone, and also used them as terminals to the HP3000,
>before IBM announced their first PC.
>
>Cecile Chi
>
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