[GreenKeys] the rareness of the KSR 35 vd ASR 35

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

YES!  Pete  HP 2000  timeshare  system!    it  probably had the  single 
processor  16 pots and drum   memory!?
 
You were going  first  class using  35 KSR's! Our   schools here in  AZ  
all had  33's 
 
If  so that  would be   a 2000A   timeshare  system.  as  you upgrade  many 
 people kept  the  2116  as an I/O processor  up to a HP 2000F timeshare  
system. 
 
 HP's  final offering in the  2000 timeshare line was  called  "2000 
ACCESS"  and was far  and above of earlier  iterations of  the   systems in file 
handling  and system  capabilities  even  did RJE and HASP!  The  2116  would 
 no  longer  wok as the I/O process with the access upgrade  due  to 
increased  memory needs  32K words vs  16 K words max on  the  2116.... and   
there was  some new  microcode that  was necessary  for the  running of the  
2000  Access  system  I/O processor.  the  replacement  was a HP-2100  with  
32K words  or a HP-21 MX  with 32 k-words
 
we ended up  with the   2000fF systems  from   MCCCD and Phx union both  we 
still have the  2116   from  Phx  Union  and we  have the compete system  
from MCCCD you  see in  the young Ed  Photo below..
 
The MCCCD 2000F  we upgraded to an access system.
 
 
 
 
Ed Sharpe CEO of Computer Exchange Inc.
(The  computer was younger and so was Ed!)  

 (http://www.smecc.org/hp2000_2.jpg) 

a  cabinet label from  one of the First HP timeshare  systems... 
( I actually have a few extras of these as one  timeshare  co we  bought
the old cabinets  from had a number of the   branded   plexi-front  racks)
 
Ed Sharpe KF7RWW  Archivist for SMECC ( where HP-2000 is !) and  retired  
CEO  Computer Exchange n.
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/11/2013 10:29:15 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
pete at petelancashire.com writes:

One  place I saw a lot of KSRs was at a school. They had one ASR (maybe 2)  
and
from very foggy memory 5 or 6 KSRs in the main lab along with two 029s  and 
a
129. Who on the list knows what they are :-) The grade school lab  had
3 or 4 KSRs
They TTYs were all hooked up to a HP 2116 running HP  2000 Time Share Basic.

At Burroughs consoles were KSRs or where we  didn't need a hard copy
CRTs. Most input was 80 col cards. There were ASRs  in the classified
areas where they designed interfaces to communication  systems. Oh .. and
of course the TWX room had two  ASRs

-pete





On 12/10/13, COURYHOUSE at aol.com  <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:
> many many many  ASR's   used as consoles on timeshare systems and  it was
> the standard in  the process control environment  as even in  a  foul   
oily
>
> environment   they   ran and   ran
>
> Back when I have the computer business in the early 80s' n  the  only  KSR
> 35s I seem to remember  came   from  that one  hospital  in calif and they
> were  desktops!  ( some ROs   also...
>
> we had scads  of  33s   and many  ASR   35s
>
>  of  course ... I imagine  commonality and rarity  would  also  change  
with
> geographical  area  perhaps   but that was my  take pone it here
>
> Ed  Sharpe  Archivist  for SMECC  _www.smecc.org_  (http://www.smecc.org)

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