• History - Multi-FORTH for HP 9000

    From Martin Hepperle@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 6 01:01:34 2022
    Hi,

    I am new here and my main area of interest are old HP computers of the 1980s. Once, there was a version of Multi-FORTH for the HP 9000/200 computers.
    It had been developed by the (now defunct) company "Creative Solutions Inc.".
    A diskette image file for this version exists, but no manual. Also the required hardware dongle was never found.
    So I would like to hear from people who might have worked with that FORTH and who may still have a copy of the manual or more fragments of this specific software.
    I can see that the system was adapted to the specifics of the HP systems, including words for controlling test instruments over the HP-IB bus.
    So it would be nice to learn more about these words and how they were used in real applications, back then.

    Thank you for your time,
    Martin

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