How about the Philips P2000 family? I have not seen messages about
those machines on the list. Z80 system, 48K RAM, 16K ROM in a cart
so it was easy to change programs, micro cassette recorder that was
operated by the computer so no fiddling with buttons, floppy drives
optional, video 40x24 color (viewdata/teletext character set) or
80x24 monochrome. Started life as a dedicated word processor, BASIC
cart added later. There was a disk operating system that could work
with the programs originally meant for cassette use only, and CP/M
was available. P2000T was the 40x24 cassette version, P2000M was the
80x24 disk version. There also was a P2000C, which was a 'portable'
machine like the Kaypro's, but it ran CP/M only and was not compatible
with the P2000T/M. AFAIK they were all developed and produced in
the Philips factories in Austria.
Picture of a P2000M at
http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/sroom.html
Picture of a P2000C at
http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/lroom.html
Kees
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Received on Sun Dec 13 1998 - 16:36:16 GMT