CONCEPT
HP 2000 BASIC
HP 2000 BASIC
- HP 2000 BASIC (HP Time-Shared BASIC) was a multi-user, time-shared computing operating system and BASIC implementation developed by Hewlett-Packard in the late 1960s and 1970s for the HP 2100 / HP 2000 series minicomputers.
- It allowed dozens of users to simultaneously connect over serial lines and 110-baud acoustic modems using ASR-33 Teletype terminals.
- At age 10, my parents arranged weekend access to an ASR-33 terminal running HP 2000 BASIC, where I honed my programming skills and typed in my very first program—a four-function math tester that ran bug-free on the first run. See Testing If the Computer Could Do Math and My First Bug-Free Program and Gladstone Childhood, FOCAL on Lined Paper, and the Early Career Arc.
What links here
Gladstone and Colton School Days
Gladstone Childhood, FOCAL on Lined Paper, and the Early Career Arc
IDES
IDES Viral Spread and the TOTO Text Editor Gig
Inventing Chat and Email Across a Leased Line in High School
Jonathan Kirwan
My Childhood Computing and the IMSAI 8080
Testing If the Computer Could Do Math and My First Bug-Free Program
The Star Trek BASIC Game and the Spaceship Operator
TOTO
TOTO Text Editor Floating-Point Line Numbers
Under the Hood of IDES and the 5-Level Security System
Washington County IED
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.