Recent News and Tips

Numeric Formatting in Suprtool

Tell Us What You Want! We are in the midst of adding a $edit function to Suprtool that allows you to apply a COBOL-type edit mask to any field. We have a couple of design questions where we could use feedback. Read the article and please send us your opinion while we are still working on it.

9/27/2003

HP 3000 World Wide Wake

Alan Yeo has set up a web site to informally help organise a good old fashioned "World Wide Wake" for the evening of the 31st October to officially see the HP 3000 out. Click the link above to find the wake nearest you and contact the organizer, or register a suggested location in your town.

The idea is that someone picks a pub/bar in a particular town, and anyone within striking distance can make their way there. This is not an official event, but a way to informally get together for a drink, a meal, or what ever, in a host of local locations around the world.

Nothing entered on the page, will be recorded off-line or used for any type of marketing, and the information will be deleted after 31st October.

9/23/2003

Computerworld on OpenMPE

The future of MPE and the possibility of an hp 3000 emulator are a feature story in Computerworld magazine this month: "Users unite to keep MPE alive".

9/19/2003

hp partsurfer

Thanks to John Dunlop, we found this hp site that lets you look up all hp spare parts, including for the HP 3000. Read about our experience at this web site. Has anyone used it yet to order actual parts?

9/11/2003

Consultant: Donald Beck

Here is an HP 3000 consultant with 20 years experience using Qedit and Suprtool. He was part of a 4-man HP support team (3 HP employees) to support Southwest Airlines when they were going to bring up their reservation system on a series of HP 3000.

9/10/2003

HP Webcast #8 is Online

The latest webcast from HP is about "keeping costs under control" when reacting to HP's phase out of the HP 3000.

9/09/2003

net.digest - September

This month's net.digest has some very interesting discussion on HPWorld, HP firmware for SCSI devices, and PINs!

9/08/2003

Hidden Value - September

9/04/2003

September Customer Newsletter

We have posted our newsletter for September and will be emailing customers tonight. This issue covers:

HP World - news, pictures, prize winners!
Eloquence DB - new chapter for our HP 3000 Evolution book
Migration - moving empty date values to SQL
New Qedit with Quad column features and XX to exclude in Visual
And more.... click the link above to browse, or download the PDF version.

9/02/2003

Archived News and Tips...

HP 3000 Book

Edited by Bob Green of Robelle, from articles written by Robelle, by The 3000 Newswire, and by other experts in the HP 3000 field.

This 300-page book contains the latest information on three important topics:
Homesteading
HP 3000 Tune Up
Migrating a 3000 application.