[GreenKeys] teletypes and minicomputer emulation - SIMH

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

2000 acess was the best!  
 
we have   huge electronic mail system on it... 100  board  bulleting board 
system multi use  live  chat  multi user  genes...  it  was  something 
else....
 
it was probably  the most amazing 2000 system that existed.
 
 
by the  way there is an open  mpe  emulator   project  for the  3000 there 
may be  charge.....  but  it  will allow  people  to migrate  since hp has 
also killed  the 3000
 
yes please     ship the   software over.... i  can put the 33  we just  got 
to work.
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/12/2012 7:20:46 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
greenkeys at vaporland.com writes:

I think  that anyone who would really like to exercise their model 33
or 35 (or any  ASCII terminal kit) would find this useful. I have a
Telebyte protocol  converter that connects to the 35.

I don't know what would happen with  a model 28 - if you can somehow
use those as a computer terminal over an  RS232 serial port, it could
also work. (like i said, I'm more software than  hardware, certainly
not at the level of you TTY repairmen!)

In  addition to showing news and weather, you could show kids how us
geezers  used to play blackjack and Star Trek interactively on 70s  era
minicomputers. I believe there are some banner and "Snoopy"  printing
programs as well.

The thing that struck me as a 13-year-old  kid was that you typed stuff
into the Teletype and IT TALKED BACK TO YOU!  Timesharing was a
way-cool concept that is lost on today's  technologists.

SIMH and the HP2000 system took a little while to  configure but I have
a turnkey setup that anyone can drop into a Mac or PC.  Once installed,
you access the emulator via "telnet" and your OS.

On  a Mac, the problem I had was that the current OS X will not let you
set the  port speed below 9600 baud, plus you need a physical serial
port to plug in  the hardware. I never got it to work with a serial
card and a Mac Pro  tower. I didn't try any USB to serial solutions
because most of what I saw  on this list indicated it was problematic.

Under XP on an old Dell  server, it worked for me - sort of. An older
version of Heavy Metal  supported telnet via Teletype (I still have
that version), but it never  worked perfectly. I had to use the PC
keyboard and the TTY printed the  output. I couldn't get the TTY
printer and keyboard to work together at the  same time, but I am
certain it was a just configuration issue.

Give  me a day or two and I'll zip up the required files and post them
in an  easily accessible location.

If you're really in a hurry, there's an  entire group of folks over on
Yahoo that do this sort of thing. Go  here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hp2000family/ and you can sign  up
for their listserv.

HP has placed their OS into the public  domain, you just have to agree
not to resell it - the Yahoo folks require  you to agree to this before
they will let you sign up and download the  basic configuration.

On Feb 12, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Ed Sharpe  <couryhouse at aol.com> wrote:

> I meant to ask what mini in high  school.  You said 2000 in Jr hs.... I 
am interested in the 2000  emulator.

We had access to the HP2000F system from 7th through 12th  grade - I
believe we started with the 2000E and moved up to the  2000F.

UVA had a maxed out 2000 ACCESS system that could submit batch  jobs to
their IBM mainframe (System/360 or 370 - not sure which - we  didn't
understand that stuff at the  time).

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