As I remember HPIB really wasn't supported except as Walter says on the 
HP300 till the Series 33/44 was released. This series used HPIB for its 
I/O interfaces...This was about 1980-82 or so. The Starfish was to 
enable the OLD systems(SII/III) to use HPIB.


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>   1. Survey: When was the being of the HP3000? (3)
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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?
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> 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!
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> Walter  
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> Walter J. Murray
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> Date:    Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:15:24 -0700
> From:    "Walter J. Murray" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Survey: When was the being of the HP3000?
> 
> Yes, loved those ISS disc drives.  I think those were the ones with the
> vernier scale attached to the top of the comb mechanism that held the
> heads.  When it wasn't doing a seek, you could actually look and see
> what cylinder it was on.
> 
> The NO-NO error messages.
> 
> And the user's group conference at that convent in Issaquah.  That was
> the year they changed the name to HPIUG, I think.  The best one I ever
> attended!
> 
> Walter  
> 
> Walter J. Murray
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> Joining in a bit late...
> 
> For those of us that worked on the CX with it's massive 128Kb of core
> memory, ISS belt driven disc drives, HSI Interface and 3 phase 208 power
> (accompanied by a giant transformer that sat in the corner), it was a
> pretty interesting time.
> 
> DEL screen design on 2645 terminals which could lose a whole days work
> by one bad keystroke, COBOL compiler errors that failed the system, and
> the infamous NO-NO CI errors...Now those were the days :-)
> 
> Fortunately, Ed McCracken listened to the uproar at Issaquah and things
> got much better by the time the Series II upgrade was out the door.
> 
> Jack Connor
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> Date:    Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:23:49 -0700
> From:    "Walter J. Murray" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Survey: When was the being of the HP3000?
> 
> Peter wrote (speaking of HP-IB):
> 
>> It was used on one of the precursors to the HP3000, the
>> HP2100, and as far as I know, every model of every series of classic 
>> HP3000.
> 
> I don't think it was used on the early 3000s, was it?  Wasn't there
> something called a Starfish that you had to buy to use HP-IB on the
> Series 64/68/70?  Seem to recall it was very large and very
> expensive--required its own cabinet.  Or am I thinking of something
> else?
> 
> Walter  
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> Walter J. Murray
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