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HP To Kill 3000 System After 30 years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somewhere-on-a-desert-highway dept.

James Ots writes "HP have announced that their 30 year old HP3000 series of computers will be joining their calculators on the scrapheap. Which is a shame, because a lot of work has gone into porting unix tools to the platform, and now we'll have to stop and port MPE (the HP3000 OS) tools to unix. Cnet have pre-announced the announcement, and the guys on comp.sys.hp.mpe don't seem too happy. (See also CSL's page on the story)"

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  1. HP To **** 3000 System After 30 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My filtering won't let me see the whole headline.

  2. I have an Idea by SolidCore · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    One word SETI.
    Perfect for scrap heap computers and calculators. Still might need to port it...


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  3. Re:pre(1 + announce) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe that "learnt" is really in the dictionary. I suppose that "hillbilly" is now a language. *sigh*

    http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=l ea rnt

  4. New HP/Compaq Logo? by AnimeFreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What will it look like exactly? The current HP logo with the Compaq logo on the right?

    IE:
    [HP] Compaq

  5. What future for PA-RISC by slashnik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anybody have any information on the future of the PA-RISC architecture. Will this continue with the advent of 64bit Intel.

    What's the preferred platform for HP Openview as my 9000's are getting a bit long in the tooth

    slashnik

    1. Re:What future for PA-RISC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why is this offtopic? With HP seemingly axing product lines left and right, I think this is in fact very ontopic.

  6. No more HP calculators? by XaXXon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a tad off topic, but I didn't know that the HP series of calculators had been scrapped :( I love my 48GX, though I have never used it for anything more than a bit of addition/subtraction (and surely never used that $100 expansion bay.. but I have it if I wanted it, and it sure impresses the geeks :) Anyone else know who else makes RPN calculators? I don't think I could ever use a 'standard' calculator again.. so I hope I don't lose my HP..man.. that pretty much just ruined my day :(

  7. Re:pre(1 + announce) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    It's British. Are you upset about 'colour' as well? Grow up.

  8. Re:For those unfarmiliar... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're such a weenie. The TI calculators are much better, and have none of that gay revserse polish notation shit!

    Hook yourself up withe a TI-89, or better yet, get the TI-92 Plus!

    I've got the 92 Plus, and it makes solving EE problems much easier.

  9. Change their corporate address? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I suppose their corporate headquarters of 3000 Hanover Street would need to be renumbered to something like 9000 Hanover Street. Don't want the address reference something that's obsolete.

  10. Re:Oh my God! by scorcherer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They've killed wizbit's karma! You BSDards!

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