It sounds like HP Fortran which is available for simh. You can find tapes and manuals on bitsavers.org and there is a yahoo group dedicated to HP 2000 series on simh.
Sent from my iPad On 5 Nov 2011, at 04:49, Ron Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > Calling fans of the HP2100 > > When I was in high school in the 70's I was granted permission to use > a local college's HP2100 system. > > The OS was Batch based - there was a card reader (and card punches > whoo) and a line printer. > There was a console terminal, and the kind of disk drive that has a > flat round removable platter and > a fixed platter. There was also a tape drive (6250 bpi? reel to reel) > > I could write FORTRAN programs, and there were cards to place in front > of and around my > deck to compile and run it. If I was there really early I could work > on the terminal, but I had to leave > if any actual college students showed up. > > I remember 102077 (octal) was a magic number indicating success. I > also remember if one > entered the command "why" on the terminal the OS would reply with "Why not?" > > > What OS was I probably running? > > Can I run that same OS under SIMH? If so where can I get it? > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
