Funny, if I supposedly have the final release tapes
for MPE/V 4.0 that says it has all the finished 
product on it, why can I not find APL on it?

(Or does it go by another file name?)

BT
NNNN
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Reaser [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Odd request
> 
> 
> "Roy Brown" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >Jim Gilbert wrote:
> >On the dear old Series III/MPE III that I started with (c 1979, but
> >sshhh...), you could get APL.
> 
> August 31, 1979.  My first exposure to an HP3000 Series III, as I
> first registered for college while Hurricane David bore down on
> Jacksonville.
> 
> By the end of 1980 I'd finished the APL course J.U. offered as part
> of their C.S. curriculum.  So there.  :-)
> 
> >You bought the software interpreter, a hardware assist 
> board, and however
> >many APL terminals you needed.
> 
> Or, if you were cheap and had a near-endless supply of tractor-feed
> paper, some DECwriter hardcopy teletype-style stations.  :-)
> 
> >I still have my copy of the HP3000 APL manual in my loft, 
> plus all the code
> >listings (long ported elsewhere) for a factory scheduling system.
> 
> Less than 5 feet from me is my APL/3000 Pocket Guide.  :-)
> 
> >Even within the Classic series, I think this was 
> unobtainable from the
> >Series IV/MPE IV onwards.
> 
> APL was never offered on the HP-IB systems (S30 and up).  The last
> hardware that supported it was the Series III with the microcode
> board.  I *know* that it was offered under MPE IV, because (a) we
> went to MPE IV just before I graduated in 1982 and (b) when I joined
> the Response Center in 1984 I was one of only three people in the
> entire North American Support Operation who admitted any knowledge
> of APL and thus was the RC's APL "maven" for a while.
> 
> 
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