Philips mini computers

[nico de jong]

On 2019-10-26 20:13, jos via cctalk wrote:
> On 26.10.19 11:00, nico de jong via cctech 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.
>>
>> Could I be lucky to find other list members interested in these 
>> products? I know of a few, but there surely must be others. I'm 
>> trying to collect what is left of the documentation.
>>
>> 73, Nico
>>
>>
> Wel I am of course, but then you knew that !
>
>
> Currently I have -:
>
> - a P857
>
> - a P856 missing the box, PS & backplane ( simple enough to reproduce )
>
> - a measuring system based on the P854 CPU ( the same I brought you )
>
> - a P851, missing the backplane, frontpanel,  a serial card and the PSU.
>
> - 2 single-chip P800 CPU's
>
>
> I have documentation on the P852, P956, P833 digital cassette
>
> On software side not much : a single cassette with Fortran & manuals.
>
>
> Yes, we should get Al interested in these ! But AFAIK they never made 
> in to the US.
>
>
> Regards, Jos
>
Hi Jos

It's nice to know exactly what you have. I'll put it in a spread sheet, 
which I'll distribute eventually. It would be nice if we could assemble 
some working systems from spare parts laying around. Seems to be a 
winter project, just to collect the data :-)

I'll be in touch

/Nico