30 Dec
2009
30 Dec
'09
8:06 a.m.
> > More seriously, my e-mail address and
'organisation' refer to a Philips
> > P850, which is a 16 bit minicomputer (OK, thar particular model ahs an
> > 8
> > bit ALU, but it appears to be 16 bits to the programmer) dating from
> > 1970. I have several other machines in the range (P851, which uses
> > Philips custom bitslice chips (SPALU == Scratch Pad and Arithmetic
> > Logic
> > Unit) , P854, which uses AMD2900 series chips and has an MMU, and what
> > appears to be a P850-series single-chip processor, maybe a P853 CPU
> > board).
> >
> > These machines are not common (to put it mildly!), but they do exist.
>
There was also the P85x-based P6800 series (later P8000), where most of the
peripherals
originated from Philips J?rf?lla in Sweden.
We have a complete system in the danish datamuseum, and also some disks with
release packages. I know for sure there is everything between TOSS release 7
and 11
TOSS was the run-time system, where every system had its own monitor (to
save space)
Those monitors were generated under DOS, which AFAIK was a normal P85x DOS.
I worked at Philips Copenhagen from 1979 to 1984 on P6800 systems. These
were used
mainly for local authorities for bookkeeping, budget etc., but were also in
use in the
danish railway system and the P&T.
I've got (somewhere) a Philips word processor
system -- a large case
containing a CRT display and a pair of 5.25" drives, with a CPU board
(a
pair of Z80s IIRC) at the back and a separate keyboard.
Early model Philips VideoWriter? The ones with a 3.5" drive were
fairly common in the mid-'80's.