Philips P2000C disks

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Jun 26 15:30:39 2004

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:

> 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)

Jules, my personal preference is for TeleDisk which runs best on a
clean DOS boot. I have used it - in varying iterations -for over
ten years.

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

I would happily take any images that you cared to forward, but
particularly the ones that I marked with an asterisk.

                                                - don

> 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 - 15:30:39 BST