Hewlett-Packard HP 2000
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Hewlett-Packard
's HP 2000 was a family of time-sharing
minicomputer
s introduced with the HP 2116A
in 1966 and sold in a variety of upgraded models until June 1978. The HP 2000's were unique in that they used a modified version of the BASIC programming language as its basic system, in a fashion that would become common on the home computer
s of the 1980s.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
's HP 2000 was a family of time-sharing
Time-sharing
Time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking. Its introduction in the 1960s, and emergence as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s, represents a major technological shift in the history of computing.By allowing a large...
minicomputer
Minicomputer
A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems...
s introduced with the HP 2116A
HP 2100
The HP 2100 was a series of minicomputers produced by Hewlett-Packard from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. The 2100 was also a specific model in this series. The series was renamed HP 1000 by the 1970s and sold as real-time computers, complementing the more complex IT-oriented HP 3000, and would be...
in 1966 and sold in a variety of upgraded models until June 1978. The HP 2000's were unique in that they used a modified version of the BASIC programming language as its basic system, in a fashion that would become common on the home computer
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...
s of the 1980s.