Philips P2000C disks

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat Jun 26 14:18:48 2004

I think a couple of people expressed an interest in boot disks for the
Philips P2000C a few weeks ago. I only just got into the museum stores
today to see what we have.

Reading off disk labels (I know *nothing* about these machines!)...

Specific (original) 2000C floppies I found:

  Copower disk CP/M
  Copower disk MSDOS 2.11
  Wordstar 3.3 Calcstar 1.45 CP/M 2.2
  ABASIC P 2509-L / TTY P 2526-L
  Grafox Dataplot+
  P2000C Maintenance Program MN11

Also the following copies (I have no idea how a P2012C differs from a
P2000C!):

  P2012C CP/M
  P2012C MSDOS Utilities
  P2012 Cardbox
  P2012-16 CP/M boot disk for MSDOS (P2000C mode) <non-IBM MSDOS s/w>
  P2012-16 CP/M boot disk for MSDOS (PC mode) <IBM PC software>
  P2012-16 MSDOS (P2000C mode) System disk <non-IBM PC software>
  P2012-16 MSDOS (PC mode) System disk <IBM PC software>
  P2012-16 P2012C CP/M MS-boot, MS-util, R/disk copy of master disk
  P2012-16 P2012C MSDOS utilities copy of master disk
  P2012-16 Copower disk CP/M copy of master disk
  P2012-16 Copower disk MSDOS 2.11 copy of master disk
  P2012-16 CP/M 2.2, Wordstar 3.3, Calcstar 1.45 copy of master disk
  P2012-16 ABASIC P 2509-L TTY P 2526-L copy of master disk
  P2012-16 Grafox Dataplot+ copy of master disk
  P2012-16 Maintenance program MN11 copy of master disk
  P2012-16 Test pattern disk for use with MN11 maintenance software


A lot of those copied P2012 disks sound suspiciously like direct copies
of the P2000C originals. What's the difference between the machines?

What's the easiest way of copying these? I can put a 360K 5.25" drive in
my desktop PC and run off some disk images, assuming they aren't some
oddball format which the PC controller can't cope with. What's the best
software to use? (I can boot MSDOS, Linux or Win 2k on the desktop)

No idea if data is intact on the disks of course, but they're all boxed
and look to be dust free.

I also found the following P2000C documentation, although scanning is
probably out of the question (happy to look stuff up though!):

  P2000C System reference and service manual set
  CP/M reference manual
  MSDOS user guide
  Copower board reference manual
  Calcstar manual
  Wordstar manuals 1 and 2
  Disk BASIC reference manual
  P2000C operator manual
  Dataplot+ user and reference manual
  Advanced BASIC interpreter operator manual
  TTY user guide
  CP/M user guide
  P2000C software catalogue

cheers,

Jules
Received on Sat Jun 26 2004 - 14:18:48 BST

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