31 May
2012
31 May
'12
2:20 a.m.
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.
If anyone wishes to try and identify them from the pictures in the auction:
Ebay # 230793403766
Camiel
31 May
31 May
5:47 a.m.
Congratulation! A real nice score!
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Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL
Operating System Collector
Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com
Homepage: www.eichberger.org
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2012/5/31 Camiel Vanderhoeven <camiel at camicom.com>
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.
If anyone wishes to try and identify them from the pictures in the auction:
Ebay # 230793403766
Camiel
10:08 a.m.
The one with the switches and blinkenlights is a P856 or P857.
It is powerfull, probably overcomplex, 16 bit machine.
Standard is 32kx16 core memory, the P857 has an MMU and thus can address more.
There aren't that many in private hands.
Simulator and some software is available :
http://www.theoengel.nl/P800/p856sim.html
The Stuttgart guys have a machine and have scanned the hardware manual.
Could you identify the spare PCB's you have got ?
Tony will no doubt identify the rest when he comes online...
Regards, Jos
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