I've been using Basic and Business Basic for ten years. They have a
converter (BBCT3000 or something like that) which will convert classic
Basic into Business Basic.

You can OCTCOMP classic programs to speed them up somewhat.

Any Growthpower shop or PowerCrew affiliate probably has every Basic
utility and module there is. Gavin Scott wrote a Basic editor
enhancement called PHANTASM. The feature I like is that it will make a
random sarcastic comment at you if you make a typo. Things like:

 - "Huh? I must have been dozing. Could you type that again?"

 - "Why don't you try COBOL. Or Pascal maybe?"

 - "I/O, I/O, It's of to Disk I Go!"

 - "Uh Oh, You're Productivity is Dropping Fast!"

 - "Does you're Mother know what you do for a living?"

 - "Do you live in a Yellow Subroutine?"

and my favorite:

 - "SESSION ABORTED BY SYSTEM MANAGEMENT"

(followed by a five-second pause, then)

 - '7"(Just Kidding)"

william l brandt wrote:
>
> John - I can't help you here - but this reminded me of an identical
> problem - I knew last year - or 6 months ago - I'd be going to a PA machine
> and since we have BASIC/3000 HP had no compiler for the  9xx machines. So I
> thought I'd convert to Business Basic on the Classic and then run everything
> in native mode on the 9xx.
>
> HP no longer supports BB on the Classic - they don't even have a tape nor
> know where I could beg, borrow or steal one.
>
> But then I leaned that CM is so darned fast - and you compile/prep just like
> the Classic - so it became a non issue.
>
> If you are having no joy email me tomorrow - I know a guy who programmed
> BASIC on the HP for 20 years - maybe he can help.
>
> Bill
> William L. Brandt
> Sacramento, CA USA
> 1986 300E
> 1986  MR2