Paul Edwards wrote:

> There was a lot of HP interest in converting IBM S/3 RPG sites to  HP3000s. I was there doing that in 1976.

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Yes, we did it too. If I am right we were one of the first partners in Germany for the HP3000   (Seitz in Bremen + Pforzheim, Germany).

We started converting IBM S/3 sites to the HP3000 in the late seventies, mostly RPG-applications. We testet the HP-RPG-Compiler in Böblingen/Germany by loading the punched cards deck (these small cards with 96 characters in 3 rows - instead of 80character "Hollerith cards")  with the source of one of our biggest application programs (HR) and we were very impressed. We got no problems in converting RPG-Programs! And significant decrease of compilation time! We wrote an utility to convert the job control files from the IBM to MPE stream files and the show could go on. Poor IBM, they lost a lot of S/3 Systems in those days.

In 1977 my boss and me stayed in Palo Alto at HP and some local customers. We were very impressed by the enthusiasm at these sites and the atmosphere at HP (all the later years we regarded the "HP Way" with envy - and now all that is gone!). And never "in the last century" we worried about our konsistent decision for HP.


In these days we finish the last migration of our ERP-Software at some Customer sites.  Now I have to struggle with SAP, Microsoft and so on and I think about retiring soon.

Where are all the good times gone !?  - sniff

Kindly regards

Christian Matticzk

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:04:16 -0700

From: "Walter J. Murray" <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: Re: Survey: When was the being of the HP3000?

Paul Edwards wrote:

> There was a lot of HP interest in converting IBM S/3 RPG sites to

> HP3000s. I was there doing that in 1976.

Me too. I helped convert an IBM S/3 site to the first HP-3000 in San Diego County, CA. They had some RPG, but a lot of FORTRAN. I converted their FORTRAN payroll system. It was mostly straightforward, except for some differences in floating-point precision.

Those were the days!

Walter

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