Speedware has announced that it's hard at work creating an independent resource for the software that HP used to offer the 3000 community via the HP Jazz Web server. Speedware became a licensee of the HP content from Jazz — programs, papers, documentation and freeware which HP had copyrighted ...

Wirt Atmar, founder of 3000 software firm AICS Research and an inventive leader of the 3000 community since the computer's inception, died yesterday at age 63. He leaves behind his wife and business partner Valerie, a son Mark, millions of lines of programs and Internet postings, and a legacy of...

Keeping the brain drain to a minimum is more of a challenge for a computer community of more than three decades. Unless the system gains fresh users over such a period, its knowledge base will age, retire or move on to other, more lucrative projects. Losing any education opportunity for the HP 3000 ...

HP's Unix endures much of the same onslaught of hacker vulnerabilities as other Unixes. A Security Bulletin from this week, one of the steady string of reports which keeps up with needed patches for HP-UX, illustrates how new Internet features expose new breeches in the OS that HP prefers for re...

As HP leaves the baseball field that is the 3000 community, it’s handing the ball over at the pitcher’s mound to some well-known, respected or dedicated third parties. These independent companies will dish out what the post-2010 user needs. HP has been negotiating license agreements for hosting ...

Emulating HP 3000 systems on non-3000 hardware has cleared a checkpoint. Hewlett-Packard will use its Right To Use (RTU) license to enable the 3000 community to run MPE/iX on non-PA-RISC hardware. The company will also offer a $500 license, for customers who don’t have licensed MPE/iX, to put the ...

An HP 3000 customer finds fewer user group choices in this era. In addition to a host of regional HP groups, Interex operated for three decades before self-destructing in the shadow of a new HP Technology Forum conference. The VMS group Encompass took HP's offer to organize the content of the ne...

Tunes inSL is a handy new site compiling links to the Amazon and iTunes pages for Second Life's many musicians. A project initiated by SL blogger and podcaster extraordinaire Crap Mariner a couple months ago, it already features links for......

I’m taking it easy on blogging through the holidays, and the spouse just got Lich King, so don’t expect serious every day posting to resume until the new year. However, here are a few things to occupy your eyeballs. – Today’s post at OBOS summarizes three recent studies, on a...

There's nothing to be bought in the 3000 marketplace now but used systems. HP has not built or delivered a new HP 3000 since early in 2004, which makes every computer sale a transaction that can be negotiated and calculated. HP has a tool to help with the calculation, an official measure of the rela...