19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
7:30 a.m.
It was written...
The first computer I ever used was an HP 200B,
TimeShare BASIC.
2000B I guess you mean?
The
notable thing about the log-in accounts was that they were all of the
pattern annn where a=alphabetic and n=numeric. The "A-triple-zero"
account, A000, was the Master Account, and files saved by that user were
accessible as read-only for all users. And, when user A000 saved a
BASIC program named "HELLO," that program was run automatically at
log-in for every user. Our HELLO program was very cool... eventually.
<Grin>
That's all definitely from the HP2000 TSB OS.
Any other letter, followed by three zeros, was a
Group Account, and
files saved by that account were read-only for any other account
starting with the same letter, i.e., other group members. Regular users
had an account that was not zero in the numeric part; ours was H455.
That account structuring scheme was odd enough that if you remember it,
you were almost certainly in the HP2000 realm...
I don't believe you were using
2000B then, as I don't believe 2000B had the
group account feature. You've certainly ruled out 2000E by that statement.
Jay West