Philips mini computers

Adrian Stoness tdk.knight at gmail.com
Sat Oct 26 19:45:01 CDT 2019


phillips when they ventured into the mini world start out by rebadging the
honeywell 316 witch i think is what your talking about
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x533q90/r/924/RfzStB.jpg

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:38 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
>
> > 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
>
>


More information about the cctalk mailing list