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They skipped over the HP3000; the workhorse of many manufacturing and banking organizations. I work in aerospace and we have three boxes in our server room.
by Feenstra 14y ago
They skipped over the HP3000; the workhorse of many manufacturing and banking organizations. I work in aerospace and we have three boxes in our server room.
- lloeki 14y agoI spent three days salvaging critical data and pre Fortran77 programs from a still running HP1000/RTE in a forge, driving automatas with timing and oven temperature settings. A PL2303+linux+screen's serial mode and subsequently python+pyserial saved the day. What pulled the trigger on this project was that the factory's management noticed that the last guy knowing the machine and the whole process design was retiring. I changed jobs in the meantime and I bet the thing still runs to this day: the planned migration will probably take years but at least enough knowledge and data has been passed on for that project to complete.
- Feenstra 14y agoWe are just planning our migration away from the HP3000 platform and the MANMAN ERP. I am eternally grateful that the Sys Manager didn't let them customize the source and instead used the ancient reporting tools (QUIZ, QTP) to create report driven work solutions. Otherwise the next three-years of my life would have been a nightmare of deciphering Fortran77 programs. Surprisingly, if you have HP3000 and MANMAN on your resume, you will get a surprising amount of job calls.