Before the HP 3000. Hewlett-Packard Data Center Milano, 1970. Left to right Ferdinando (Nando) Longoni, Nino Mezzapesa. Joe Bailey (standing with tie), Alberto Panni (front row), Enrico Mariani, Emilia Tosti, Gianni Scalera, Fritz Jörn (with paper tape winder), Alfredo Scarfone. Background HP 2116 based real time system
Hewlett-Packard HP 3000 label. More on the subject in a blog entry at http://blogabissl.blogspot.com/2012/01/dedicated-to-my-old-friends-especially.html
Hewlett-Packard HP 3000 Compute Center Europe, Geneva, 1973, brochure, see also www.Siebenfahr.com/HP3000Geneva.pdf
Hewlett-Pakard Geneva data center. HP 3000, installed January 1972. A optical paper tape reader in the leftmost rack, in the 3rd rack a reader and a a punch. Between them and in rack 4 under the tape disc drives(?); 3 magnetic tape units, one free standing disc drive (?). Configuration see brochure, back three pages.
Hewlett-Packard Geneva data center, HP 3000, Harlan Andrews and Björn Lindberg (standing)
The new panels for the HP3000/30, 1975. Comments Bert Forbes: “The original ‘Panels’ were known internally as the ‘Toaster’ – they looked like pieces of bread popped up from the table. They were engineering tools and only supplied with customer units because management said something like ‘if IBM has blinking lights, the 3000 will have blinking lights’”.
HP 3000 memory board, probaly 32k words à 16 bit, card reader and line printer
Hewlett-Packatd. The new panels for the HP 3000 / 30. Comments Bert Forbes: “The original ‘Panels’ were known internally as the ‘Toaster’ – they looked like pieces of bread popped up from the table. They were engineering tools and only supplied with customer units because management said something like ‘if IBM has blinking lights, the 3000 will have blinking lights’”.
Cupertino, Thursday, September 25, 1975. Hewlett-Packard Data Systems Division Review. The HP3000/30 SST all new, and here without a magnetic tape drive. (The numbers are my negative stripe numbers, fj)
September 26, 1975. HP 3000 in Hewlett-Packard’s Neely sales region demo center with Claudia ? Two tape drives, a free standing disk unit
Hewlett-Packard HP 3000 at Cupertino, 3 systems in a row, used for internal materials and production management, factory order processing and financial and marketing information processing
Hewlett-Packard Customer Engineers Meeting in the new Grenoble factory, September 11, 1975. Note the removable magnetic discs, bottom front, ca. 2.5 MByte (http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=275). Picture 67/25: François Gaullier, Marc Brun, Pierre Olivier. 67/21: Wil Houde, Steve Stark, Jerry Peterson, Alfredo Scarfone. 67/28: Peter Stuart, Wil Houde, Wim Roelandts, Tom Winkler, Jerry Peterson, Steve Stark, Bruno Massery. 67/26: Wil Houde, Wim Roelandts, Tom Winkler, Jerry Peterson, Steve Stark, Bruno Massery.
Hewlett-Packard HP3000 with “more than 60 terminals active”, Sept. 1975, Carol Budkowsky, Bob Strand, John Page. See Bob Strand’s comments (Jan. 2012) at http://blogabissl.blogspot.com/2012/01/dedicated-to-my-old-friends-especially.html#Strand
Hewlett-Packard HP3000 with “more than 60 terminals active”, Sept. 1975, picture 69/35: Carol Budkowsky and Bob Strand. “We did the initial testing of multiple terminals in Cupertino with 128 K-bytes of RAM. Could not get beyond 20 or so terminals. When we got a beta of the 256 K machine we knew we could do the job” – comments Bob Strand in 2012.
Hewlett-Packard Datas Systems Newsletter November 15, 1974, “3000CX Press Conference” and a sale to Lechler KG in Germany. See PDF file at www.Siebenfahr.com/DataSystemsNewsletterNov74parts.pdf, the full newsletter including a benchmark tuning story at http://www.hpmuseum.net/pdf/DataSystemsNewsletter#page=5_1974_Nov15_13pages-OCR.pdf
Praised by the then German manager Horst Enzelmüller were Rudi Almaschi, the salesman, and Erich Taschner, the systems analyst.
The HP 3000 gets installed at Böblingen demo center, February 13, 1975
The HP 3000 gets installed at Böblingen demo center, February 13, 1975. Fritz Jörn on top
In 1975 we trained (technical) systems analysts to sell the HP 3000 with Cobol and RPG, internal article
Broschüre 5953-0582 (German) ca. 1980, see also www.Siebenfahr.com/HP3000Brochure.pdf
Hewlett-Packard, Deutsche Preisliste 1980, Ausgabe Juli 1980, Auszug. Cost of the HP 3000 Series 30: 63 611 DM, Series 33: 83 123 DM, Series III: 175 271 DM plus options, peripherals and tax. ENDE der Bilder, END of the show. Fritz@Joern.De
