David Yes, our hp 2000 had it that we ct at Computer Exchange in
phx.
a FORTRAN that was written in Basic indeed! it was an add on not
something that came with the hp timeshare system you had to procure from
OMSI. I have some old store tapes that should have the OMSI FORTRAN in
a000 where we kept it. but no way currently to get it off a we do
not have a tape drive on a 2000 system.... there is fake 200 that runs
on the pc as an emulator but heh! no tape drive and due to old
company files and sp,e of ,my personal files i would NOT loan the tape
out. we had a massive bbs system that ran on the 2000 also you could
configure 100 separate bbs boards with their own owners and set ups
amazing at the time. plus an online chat system with many levels of
powers and super powers on it. there was also a powerful email system a
voting and polling system and more.. this also went over to the hp
3000 and we enhanced it even further ok I will quit rambling ...
If we ever get a way to read tapes for the 2000 and 3000 i will
be able to get these back on line as well as extract the OMSI FORTRAN if
you are not going to keep the manual we would love it for the SMECC
museum's HP section in our Museum Project here in AZ. i can be reached at
couryho...@aol.com
In a message dated 11/19/2021 12:28:20 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
Like many, I used an HP 2000 TSB system in high school to first learn about
programming. Wanting to learn more than just BASIC, I soon discovered there was
a program on the system that let you write and run FORTRAN programs. All these
years later I can't remember anything more than that and haven't seen anything
more on it since then until recently. While clearing out my storage space I
came across an old binder with a photocopy of a manual. Looking though it I
soon realized it was from my high school computer class and described the
system for running FORTRAN. So now I have a name at least and a copy of a
manual, but haven't yet found anything more and hope that someone here might be
able to shine some light and supply more about it. The manual says it was known
as OSMI 2000 FORTRAN and was a "series of programs written in the BASIC
language which run short FORTRAN programs" on an HP 2000 BASIC system. Anyone
heard of this before? Thanks. David Williamswww.trailingedge.com
