phillips when they ventured into the mini world start out by rebadging the honeywell 316 witch i think is what your talking about https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x533q90/r/924/RfzStB.jpg
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:38 PM Paul Koning via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:00 AM, nico de jong via cctech < > [email protected]> 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 > >
