6 Aug
2010
6 Aug
'10
12:04 p.m.
Hi,
The Philips P4500 is a mini-mainframe. AFAIR it supported Condtrol Data
disks and Pertec tape drives.
It came with COBOL.
I looked again. It is a 4500. With a terminal. There's a CDC SMD 14" hard disk
installed. The drive
This sounds sufficiently unusual that it shouldn't be scrapped. Oh why
can't it be in England???
* Philips P4500 computer (or 5400?)
don't know what that is. you coulda told us. And you really should
make up your mind here.
has the same brown Philips design as the rest. Drive
is calles "Mini module drive". I powered up the
drive without the computer connected. After finding the transport lock it spun up, loaded
heads, and
got ready. I have no idea about the overall condition of the system.
If nobody speaks for the machine, it will be scrapped in the next weeks. The disk drive
will be
Plese try to save it. Philips machines are suffiiciently odd to be
interesting if you see what I mean. OK, I am biased (my first mincomputer
was a Philips, I read those schematiocs many times), but still...
-tony