- Smiles, but less joking at 2012's HP Discover2012/05/11
HP's announced its executive keynote lineup for the June HP Discover 2012 show, the biggest HP-centric conference for the year. At the last HP Discover the company was still debating with Oracle over the future of the database on HP...
- Intrinsic Advice: Finding HP's 3000 Savvy2012/05/10
While I fine-tuned (okay, corrected) yesterday's report about the current lifespan for MPE date intrinsics, my associate technical editor Vladimir Volokh suggested we include HP's documentation page for HPCALENDAR. That's the intrinsic HP wrote for the 6.0 and 7.x releases...
- Which bits produce the 3000's stall in 2028?2012/05/09
At the risk of beating a dead horse, we will return to the 3000's roadblock in 2028 one last time. We can wrap up our CALENDAR intrinsic discussion with an explanation of the reason for its hold on the 3000's...
- Taking the Console at Your History2012/05/08
In a community that spans decades of IT, history is around every corner of memory and experience. This year the HP 3000 marks its 40th birthday, a milestone that prompts examination and recollection in everyone. (Not to mention an HP...
- App replacement may spur emulator evals2012/05/07
The 3000 community continues to examine the Stromasys HPA/3000 emulator from a capital cost perspective. It sounds like a costly investment for a customer who's already working on a limited budget. But there's some evidence from migration prospects that the...
- One-vendor solution emulates '80s devotion2012/05/04
Owners of the HP 3000 have toiled through decades of being devoted to the work of a single vendor. In the 1980s when the 3000's success started rolling, one-vendor IT was not only smart, but also the only way to...
- Eloquence assembles more DB advances2012/05/03
MB Foster filled up its room for yesterday's webinar about the advances in the new Eloquence database and language. The drop-in replacement for IMAGE at migrating 3000 sites has been popular -- in part because of its pricing, but also...
- How to Install a VA7410 RAID Array2012/05/02
By Craig Lalley First, I would only install a VA7410. Over the years, I have learned the VA7410s are much more reliable than the VA7100s. You want to make sure that you have the latest firmware on the controllers. And...
- RAIDing LDEV1, finding code for migration2012/05/01
What are the solutions for replacing our 4GB internal LDEV1 with something that supports RAID -- or at least disk mirroring? We currently have our production data in 'Jamaica' units, fully mirrored (Mirror/iX), but I've been worried about that ancient...
- 3000's use in 2028: bug, or feature?2012/04/30
The CALENDAR intrinsic that blocks HP 3000 use in 2028 has been described as a bug. On the first day of that year, dates will not be represented accurately. Some in your community consider that New Year's Day, less than...
- 3000 system census surprises in UK2012/04/27
At a recent 3000 webinar among CAMUS user group members, the Talk Soup Q&A brushed across the 2011 HP3000 Reunion. While the talk examined activity of 2012, one attendee on the conference call could be heard saying, "Not another reunion!"...
