Seems as if many of us cut our first HP teeth with the 2000, particularly in an educational setting. I was the systems analyst in charge of educational applications for the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal in the early '70's. Our main number-cruncher was a Univac 9400 (anyone remember them?). Somebody decided we needed to provide online access to our high schools, the major purpose being to provide a BASIC interpreter in support of the Computer Science curriculum. Each high school (about 16) had a single terminal using "paper tape". Univac was engaged to develop the software to support this service on our 9400. The project was an unmitigated disaster and, after about 2 years, was dropped. We bought an HP2000C which - to our great delight - worked like a charm . All the high schools were able to interpret - and later some to compile - their BASIC routines online without any hitches. I recall that a printed list of available HP2000 canned programs was available from Cupertino & we ordered some of them - a primitive precursor of the CSL, I guess. Also, we experimented with IMAGE/2000(!) on the 2000 Access which replaced the 2000C... HP's computer division in Montreal in that era operated out of the back of a factory dedicated mainly (I think) to process control components for the aerospace industry which appeared to be HP's bread-and-butter. We appeared to share with the rest of Canada a single computer marketing representative, Sharrif Alaily. And, as we say in Quebec, plus que change, plus que la meme chose (ask Denys to translate if you must). *********************************************************************** Eric Bender, Coordinator, Computer Services John Abbott College P.O. Box 2000 Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada H9X 3L9 Voice: (514) 457-6610, Ext. 208 Fax: (514) 457-3027 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Visit our Website: http://www.JohnAbbott.Qc.Ca ***********************************************************************