Re: Philips mini computers

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:00 AM, nico de jong via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> 
> 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.

I don't remember those; I do remember a Philips mini called the PR8000.  That 
was apparently designed for industrial control, at least judging by the 
marketing brochure I have for it.  It's the machine on which I learned assembly 
language programming.  24 bit machine, French mnemonics.  Very interesting 
interrupt system.  I've never seen any documents about it other than that one 
short 10-page marketing sheet.

Then there was a 16 bit Philips minicomputer, P9200?  Saw it at the Evoluon in 
Eindhoven where it controlled an interactive sculpture called the Senster.  
That has been preserved apparently; it would be neat to do a simulation of it.

        paul