HP 2100
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The HP 2100 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers that were produced by Hewlett-Packard from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. Tens of thousands of machines in the series were sold over its 25-year lifetime
HP 2100A
HP 1000 E-Series minicomputer with a 9895A dual 8-inch "flexible disc memory" drives
HP 2115A computer pictured without its power supply
HP 2100 computer (upper left), shown with two 7970 tape drives, 7900-series hard disk, 2748 paper tape reader, and 2767A impact printer. The separate front-panel switches and lights were replaced with light-up push buttons, which had a tendency to burn out.
BASIC
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BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. Th
HP 2100
…memory. All of these models were also packaged as the HP 2000 series, combining a 2100-series machine with optional components in order to run the BASIC programming language in a multi-user time sharing fashion. HP Time-Shared BASIC was popular in the 1970s, and many early BASIC programs were written on or for the platform…
"Train Basic every day!"—reads a poster (bottom center) in a Russian school (c. 1985–86)
BASIC came to some video game systems, such as the Famicom.