HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Tue Jan 27 21:26:20 2004

Ed;

Send me your tapes and I'll read them.

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)


> interesting thing we had on the access system two things actually... one
was
> a bbs with 100 message boards, mail system and vote and a multi user chat
> that worked through writing and reading a disc file......
>
> the other was a giant space war game that had the universe held in a
> matrix in a disc file.... before I got lock feet for the 2883 we would
have
> to come in a kick it back into place after the local kids spent all nite
> playing the game.... I wonder if my old tapes will still load.. guess I
am
> looking for a tape drive that will hook to a pc with controller ready to
go
> turnkey... any suggestions?
>
> ed sharpe archivist for smecc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Gemeny" <MGemeny_at_pgcps.org>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:09 PM
> Subject: HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)
>
>
> >
> > Jay wrote:
> > >To my knowledge the only way SIMH might do this is if you ran multiple
> > >copies of SIMH, perhaps in separate windows. And even then, not sure it
> > >would let you cross connect cables between the systems. But I may be
> wrong
> > >about this.
> >
> > Yep, that?s the way the Access Zip launches SIMH to run Access or ?F?.
The
> two
> > occurrences of SIMH are connected with a pair of sockets.
> >
> > Sure, we know it?s inefficient. But just now, it?s the only way to run
?F?
> or Access,
> > without real hardware, and, they both do run under simulation, IOP and
> all!
> >
> > I had a guest come over this past weekend with a set of tapes and we
were
> able
> > to read and reload his tapes into a running simulation. All in all, we
> spent 9 hours
> > at it, and 2 of those were spent breaking into his system.
> >
> > What we ended up doing was to ?RESTORE? a $HELLO from some other HIBE
> > tape in order to get past his ridiculously tight security. We had a
blast
> banging
> > our heads together on it, but I want to let him tell that story.
> >
> > The bottom line is that Access IS ALIVE under simulation!!!!
> >
> > It only gets better from here? Take the ZIP for a spin!
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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