>>> 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.
>>> picture at http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/sroom.html
>
>>Hi Kees, your pages are always interesting. Haven't visited in a while.
>>You mention that the P2000 started as a dedicated WP. Could this have
>>been the Philips Micom 2000 ? If so, any other info ?
> The P2000 family I was talking about has four lines that are incompatible
> with each other.
> - The P2000T (cassette, 40 char video) / P2000M (disk, 80 char video)
> which was the most common here in The Netherlands. They were the same
> internally but had different video. Most programs were interchangable.
> A CP/M card was available for it from the Philips computer club. Also
> a floppy disk controller for the T that was compatible with the internal
> one in the M.
> - The P2000C luggable, the most advanced one, CP/M, even had a 8088
> 'CoPower' card available for it that could run MSDOS. You could attach
> an external hard disk via a SASI interface. It could read and write the
> disk formats from all the other members, and of a lot of CP/M systems too.
> - The P2000B/P2500, a CP/M disk system with 5.25i disks, monitor and disks
> in one cabinet like the P2000M, on top of a passive backplane cabinet
> like the Northstar with everything on cards. 8i floppy controller available.
I have a P2000C with external HDD (5 1/4",10MB). Quite a good CP/M system
(In fact, the only CP/M I have in use). So what are the chances to get
an P2000T and P2000M ? And the price ? over here in southern germany they
are almost unknown. Hard to see a Philips MSX system, but never a 2000M.
Also the 8088 Card :)
Servus
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Mon Jan 04 1999 - 08:31:46 GMT