Status of HP3000 emulation?

[Edward Berner]

Hello,

What is the current status of the hp3000 emulator projects / products? I

haven't heard anything about emulators on either 3000-L or the OpenMPE li
st
for quite a while now.

Searching the net a bit indicates that at one time Allegro, Software
Resources International, and Strobe Data were all potentially interested
in
building an emulator. Software Resources International posted to 3000-L
in
Feb 2004 that they were working on a prototype but hadn't decided whether
or
not to make it a product. Various articles from 3000newswire.com indicat
e
that Strobe Data is also working on an emulator and, if I understand the
articles correctly, has commited to it as a product.

<dream>

If an emulator existed and cost less than the hardware support contract f
or
our 3000 then I could save money and reclaim some floor space at the same
time.

</dream>

Thanks.

Edward

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[Tony Summers]

Various solutions already exist in addition to the ones you list.

Look for (in no particular order)

- MPUX and Edwin (Ordina-Denkart)
- AMXW (speedware)
- Acucobol (acucorp)
- Microfocus Cobol
- Transformix
- Transoft
- ScreenJet
- Eloquence
- etc

There's plenty of information/advice available on the Web - get
"a-googling".

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Edward Berner
Sent: 14 April 2006 23:20
To: HP30...@RAVEN.UTC.EDU
Subject: [HP3000-L] Status of HP3000 emulation?

Hello,

What is the current status of the hp3000 emulator projects / products?
I haven't heard anything about emulators on either 3000-L or the OpenMPE

list for quite a while now.

Searching the net a bit indicates that at one time Allegro, Software
Resources International, and Strobe Data were all potentially interested
in building an emulator. Software Resources International posted to
3000-L in Feb 2004 that they were working on a prototype but hadn't
decided whether or not to make it a product. Various articles from

3000newswire.com indicate that Strobe Data is also working on an

emulator and, if I understand the articles correctly, has commited to it
as a product.

<dream>

If an emulator existed and cost less than the hardware support contract

for our 3000 then I could save money and reclaim some floor space at the
same time.

</dream>

Thanks.

Edward

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* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *

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[Al Kossow]

Edward Berner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the current status of the hp3000 emulator projects / products?

Bob Supnik and I have talked about simulation of Classic 3000 systems
for historical purposes. The hangup appears to be locating early MPEs
written for Series III systems and earlier. Series 4x appear to be
more difficult, since the support microprocessor documentation is
unobtainium. Series III and earlier are quite well documented.

I know this isn't exactly what you had in mind, but from a software
preservation point of view, it would be good to locate copies of early
MPE software.

Al Kossow
Software Curator
Computer History Museum