On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:48:52 +0100, you wrote: > >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Jay West >> Verzonden: dinsdag 23 februari 2016 21:09 >> Aan: 'GerardCJAT'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic Posts' >> Onderwerp: RE: Who, on this list, Owns / Collects / Plays with an HP1000 A >or L >> series ?? >> >> GerardCJAT wrote... >> ------- >> It seems ( at first ) that most collections stops at 21MX ( M/E/F ) era. >> Am I correct in my view ? >> ------- >> Not to minimize those that love the A/L stuff.... but I suspect you are >correct in >> general terms, statistically. But I do know there are some folks lurking >that are >> familiar with that era. >> >> I myself started to look at the A series as the instruction set had mostly >similar >> instructions (ie. A superset). But then I saw that was the sum total of >the >> similarity, and did not proceed further. I'm content to focus on 21MX and >prior ;) >> >> J >I've a few A-series systems, and like to have an L-system once (just because >of the technology jump to silicon on sapphire) >But at the moment, they're just waiting for attention ;) > The hardware unfortunately disappeared when my previous employer went broke (I would have offered to buy it, as I was freelancing by then) but the dear old HP-1000A brings back memories. We used to write laboratory systems software in FORTRAN-77 to interface with the LAS (Laboratory Automation System) and LABSAM (Laboratory Sampling and Management) packages which H-P sold as their combined laboratory software offering. Unfortunately Y2K put paid to LABSAM, H-P decided it wasn't worth updating it, although they kept LAS staggering along for a final year. We did a five man-year project for a major pharmaceutical company, writing an add-on chromatography calculations package with just the FORTRAN compiler and H-P's FORMS/1000 screen management library.
Happy days! Brian.
