1 Oct
2022
1 Oct
'22
3:19 a.m.
https://www.stirlingcryogenics.eu/
These machines are still made and indeed are very cool. ;-)
Tom
On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 4:54 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Preservation
On Sep 30, 2022, at 1:12 PM, Peter Corlett via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
Note that there are (at least) _two_ Philips museums: the "Stichting tot
Behoud van Historische Philips Producten" (Foundation for the
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.
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