31 May
2012
31 May
'12
3:30 p.m.
Hello Camiel
The P800 hardware is also used in the PTS 6000 series, where PTS means
Philips Terminal System. As it happens, some PTS colleagues have a lunch
meeting tomorrow in Copenhagen :-)
I myself have used the PTS series for 4-5 years, while in Philips Data
Systems. my guess is that the drives are 2,5 megs; on the 6000 we had a
high capacity version, a whopping 5 MB !
Good Luck !
/Nico
Hi everyone,
I won an eBay auction for three Philips P800 family minis with three
cartridge disc drives, disc cartridges, lots of spare parts, and manuals
including schematics. All for the incredible sum of 10 euros 75. I saw the
auction when it had 11 minutes left to go while I was on vacation (I'm a
bit
of an eBay junkie, although deals like this are becoming rare). I'm
collecting the systems this Sunday afternoon.
As the manuals are all in binders, I'm planning on feeding them all
through
a scanner and posting them to bitsavers.
Now, I seem to recall that Tony Duell has some experience with these
systems. Is there anything I should be aware of before loading them on a
trailer? Do the disc drive heads need to be locked in some way? When I've
picked up the stuff, I'll post model and part numbers. Any advice offered
on
how to get them going again would be very welcome.
Cheers,
Camiel.