26 Oct
2019
26 Oct
'19
5:38 p.m.
On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:00 AM, nico de jong via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Back in the 70's and 80's Philips had a quite popular series of mini computers
called P800, which also branched out to the PTS series and possibly other.
I don't remember those; I do remember a Philips mini called the PR8000. That was
apparently designed for industrial control, at least judging by the marketing brochure I
have for it. It's the machine on which I learned assembly language programming. 24
bit machine, French mnemonics. Very interesting interrupt system. I've never seen
any documents about it other than that one short 10-page marketing sheet.
Then there was a 16 bit Philips minicomputer, P9200? Saw it at the Evoluon in Eindhoven
where it controlled an interactive sculpture called the Senster. That has been preserved
apparently; it would be neat to do a simulation of it.
paul