bummer......
to hell  with apple 
 
 
I  want my MPE 4 Q delta 2
 
Ed#
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/29/2014 2:46:16 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
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On a  similar note: the HP Cupertino Site, home for (most of) the HP3000 
R&D  teams and manufacturing source of (most) pre-RISC MPE servers is now 
scraped  clean in preparation to land Apple's "Steve Jobs memorial space ship." 
The  redwood grove where execs used to serve us hamburgers during 
Beer-Busts is all  cut-down as are apparently all other trees except those on the 
Pruneridge  Wolfe, Homestead, Tantau street boarders. . . 

Jim  

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion  [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
Of Ed Effinger
Sent: Thursday,  May 29, 2014 11:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L]  Mpe: Sad to see it gone....

Hi Harlan.
Very similar story to what  mine will be next March as we plan to pull the 
plug on our HP929.
We too  started with HP in 1975-76 to replace our old Honeywell and I too 
have done  all things here.
Thanks for sharing.
Ed Effinger
Conestoga  College
Kitchener Ontario Canada.

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion  [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
Of Harlan Lassiter
Sent:  Thursday, May 29, 2014 2:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject:  [HP3000-L] Mpe: Sad to see it gone....

Yesterday I went by the building  that I used to work in for over 27 years. 
 The original company got  bought by another larger one and everyone was 
eventually moved to another  location.  I had been in the building awhile back 
and it was sad to see  how much equipment and other office supplies and 
furniture had just been left  behind.

Last time I was in the building, in the corner of the raised  floor 
computer room, was our HP3000 928 system, console monitor and LPQ1200  printer.  
Yesterday it was gone.  Apparently is was picked up late  last week as scrap.  
Also from the room there were around 50 Dell LCD  monitors (some new, still 
in bubble wrap) and perhaps 30 Dell desktop  computers, APC battery backup 
systems, server arrays and other assorted  computer equipment.  All picked 
up and sold for scrap.  I was told  last week that the pickup was going to be 
after Memorial Day so that is why I  was at the building yesterday.  Much 
of the equipment could have been  donated to organizations that could use a 
computer system even though they  were not the most current.  

The 928 was the last in a series of  HP systems for the company having 
started out with a Series 2 back in 1979  when I first started with them.  We 
came a long way.  I started as a  programmer and left as the system manager.  
The system ran all of the  company in-house accounting, finance, payroll and 
project tracking reports and  engineering software.  All software was 
developed in-house and was  written in FORTRAN.  As FORTRAN evolved through the 
years, so did the  software.  Files were converted from serial (flat) files 
to KSAM and  eventually to IMAGE databases.  What used to take overnight to 
process  took less than an hour in later days.

It was great learning experience  to have grown up with the HP3000, MPE 
O/S, HP tech support, O/S upgrades and  patches, Hotline support, INTEREX 
conferences and PC and network integration  in the later years.  I guess I was 
hoping to fire the system up one more  time just for nostalgic sake since I am 
the only one left that would be able  to do such a thing.

That is my story.  I continue to read this  message board and can relate to 
what topics are being discussed.   

Thanks for the memories all.

Harlan  Lassiter

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Boyle Engineering (now  defunct)
Newport Beach, California

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