[vcf-midatlantic] HP back in time
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Wed Aug 1 01:57:35 EDT 2018
I accomplished something this evening that I haven't done since 1988: I
loaded a HP3000 system from tape! :-) I have a 9-track FOS tape (Fundamental
Operating System) which I picked up on Epay 5 years ago, which contains MPE/V
release G.A3.09 (circa 1990). I imaged the tape in SIMH format, and used
HPDrive (pretending to be a 7974 tape drive) to load the FOS tape and
configure the operating system on my Series 37.
Back in the day, this was part of the delivery and setup of a new system
for a customer. The final responsibility of a CE was to install MPE/V from
the FOS tape, and get to the system signon. After that, it was the customer's
system.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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