11 Sep
2016
11 Sep
'16
8:23 a.m.
On Sep 11, 2016, at 5:03 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven
<iamcamiel at gmail.com> wrote:
Op 11 sep. 2016 9:27 a.m. schreef "Adrian Stoness" <tdk.knight at
gmail.com>:
Philips was founded around the end of the 19th century as a maker of light bulbs, got into
vacuum tubes in the 1920s or so. They bought Dutch computer pioneer Electrologica in 1965
but didn't do much with it. They also built various other computers. I worked on an
obscure one, the PR8000, a 24 bit minicomputer from Philips France (complete with French
assembler mnemonics).
paul
Phillips in Europe was not part of Phillips in the us was it's own company
from what I've been able to find out the model I have is from around 1968
post a link to a pic when I'm not on my phone
Philips (with a single L) is a Dutch company. They made a whole range of
computers at various times: home computers (P2000 and MSX), IBM PC
compatibles, an IBM PC/MSX hybrid (the :YES, notoriously incompatible with
either architecture), minicomputers (I have several members of the P800
series) and mainframes (P1000)