20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
9:59 p.m.
I currently have three Phillips machines, two of one type and one of
another (don't remember the model numbers), all with floppy disk drives.
They were used in a classified environment and were being scrapped out
when I got them. I don't remember if they came with any software, but I
suspect not, and unfortunately they came with no documentation. The two
machines are about 24" x 24" x 24" and the single one is kind of a
desktop unit with the floppy and monitor built in. If anyone is
interested, let me know and make a reasonable ... or unreasonable :) ...
offer but realize *I* will not package and ship them.
True. But
other computer makers of even lower stature have shown up
on the CC list, and in bitsavers. Apart from the big ones, it seems
to be just a random process that determines which machines appear and
which ones do not. For example, I can't think of any other reason why
Varian would show up in Al's archive and Philips would not...
I doubt there were ever more than 100 Phillips machines in the US at any
given time. Perhaps in Europe they were more popular, but here they were
effectively not even a tiny speck in the minicomputer industry.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org