20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
4:40 p.m.
Then again, there are even darker spots. Some time
ago I went looking
for documentation about some Philips computer and found absolutely
For the record, I have some manuals for some P850 series machines. From
memory :
P850 (TTL-based CPU): User manual (which includes the instruction set,
bootstrap listing, etc), CPU technical manaul (schematics of the CPU and
PSU bits, nothing on memory or I/O)
P851 (Philips custom bitslice) : User manual (also with instruction set,
etc), 2 volume techncial manual (schematics of the CPU, PSU, memory, some
I/O), Floppy disk system technical manual (with the CDC floppy drive
manual as well), etc
P854 (AM2900 bit slice) : CPU technical manual (preliminarly edition,
alas withot the microcode source), PSU manual (a very good manual for an
SMPSU, with schematics, waveforms, etc).
Some other stuff. I think I have a mnaul for a 4-port serial card that
includes schemaatics, ROM source, etc.
nothing -- not just for the model I wanted, but
nothing for any model
at all. About the only thing I could find was a picture of a cover
page of some manual (in the Google cache, though the website itself no
longer had it).
Given that a fair number of CC contributors are European, this is
slightly surprising. Not that Philips ever was a particularly
Well, I may have a few manuals, but I have no way to scan them...
-tony