18 Dec
2006
18 Dec
'06
12:47 p.m.
In article <200612181938.kBIJcV1m064938 at lots.reanimators.org>,
Frank McConnell <fmc at reanimators.org> writes:
Doesn't sound familiar, but this was 1979 and I was 13 :-).
Richard wrote:
ISTR it was "HELLO". (What I remember most was before the HELLO part
you did CR <digit> CR to select a machine from the port selector.
After that you were talking to the machine across town from your
terminal.)
Well it was my first computing experience, so
I'm pretty sure it was a
3000. But given two old timers from my first computing group both
said it was a 2000, now I'm on a hunt for documents that will say
definitively :-). Until then its my memory vs. their memory.
You had to type something to log in, right? How'd it start?
"HEL-" (2000)
"HELLO-" (2000)
"HELLO " (3000) I remember
that on the HP we all used a "demo" account. I can't
remember if the accounts on the HP were numeric or alphanumeric.
HP2000 would be a letter followed by three digits, e.g. H999. HP3000 would be (at minimum) two labels,
"user" and "account", of one
to eight characters each separated by a period. Could also have a
"session name" label in front followed by a comma, and/or a "group"
label at the end prefixed by a comma.) First character of each label
would be alphabetic, second and later characters alphanumeric.
Could it have been "DEMO,DEMO"?
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