30 Sep
2022
30 Sep
'22
8:53 p.m.
On Sep 30, 2022, at 1:12 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
It's hard to see what the significance of the latter is, if any. The website has a
"collection" tab that doesn't say anything about a collection. The
"eyecatchers" tab speaks of an exhibit of Philips advertising posters. Ok,
nice, but what does that have to do with the technology and products and enormous R&D
contribution of the company?
The former at least shows something about the collection, a set of nice photos of stuff.
That and a hint that there is more -- but no description of what that might be.
I keep wondering if anything whatsoever about the PR8000 has been preserved anywhere. I
have a marketing brochure that I scanned and sent to Bitsavers, plus some notes about the
parts of the instruction set that show up in a program of mine. But I've never seen
anything else, even finding any mention of the machine is nearly impossible.
I still regret I didn't save the Stirling cryogenic machine brochures I had as a
teenager -- neat machines Philips built for easily and cheaply making lab quantities of
liquid nitrogen and even liquid helium. Some were backpack size, apparently for airborne
applications. I also had a brochure of their neutron generator tube, which is a pretty
wild device.
paul
...
Note that there are (at least) _two_ Philips museums: the "Stichting tot
Behoud van Historische Philips Producten" (Foundation for the Preservation
of Historic Philips Products) and the Philips Museum. Their websites are
https://www.sbhp.nl/ and https://www.philips-museum.com/. Both are in
Eindhoven, as is much of the interesting bits of Philips itself.
The former appears to be volunteer collectors of mainly analogue-era Philips
gear and I can almost smell the chain-smoked roll-ups just from the photos,
whereas the latter looks rather more corporate.