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P2000 Computer Collection

In 1980 Philips developed a series of computers based on the Z80. The machines were an own development in Europe (Austria) and targeted at home users (the P2000T series) and business (the P2000M and the later 'portable' P2000C).

The P2000 product line lasted until Philips started to market MSX machines for the home market instead of the P2000T and also introduced Intel 8086 architecture based machines like the Yes for business.

Philips P2000T

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Z80 based
1980
The video has a teletext generator, allowing colorfull graphics. Useful for games!

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The small MDCR tapes used as storage in the P2000T

Philips P2000M

The P2000M shares the same casing and medicore keyboard with the P2000T but lacks the teletext videochip. Instead it is to be enhanced with a 80 charaters per line monitor/dual floppy drive box and is suited for business puposes. The monitor is monochrome and most have, after all these years, developed a disturbing degradation of the glass surface. With an optional CP/M module this machine is ready for serious work.

 

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P2000C

This machine must have been inspired by the Osborne and clones such as the Kaypro and the Bondwell machines: a 'portable' CP/M based machine. Developed several years later than the P2000T and P2000M and in fact has not much more in common than the Z80 cpu anf the brandname P2000. Small monochrome monitor, detachable keybaord, two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, Z80 at 4 MHz with 64K RAM, and a separate videoboard with a Z80 also. Two popular additions are a 8086 coprocessor board with MS-DOS 2 or a IEEE-488 board to access the then popular HP-bus based equipment.

My machine has the higher capacity 640K floppy drives, the more cheaper drives can hold 160K.

 

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The board in the back holds the videoboard, beneath the video monitor is the mainboard.