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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Philips P/330	Computers	Professional Computer	Netherlands	1978	Intel 8080	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos hardware oc_id source P/330 /media/museum/photos/p330-1.jpg /companies/philips Philips label value NAME P/330 label value MANUFACTURER Philips label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Netherlands label value YEAR March 1978 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknown label value KEYBOARD Full stroke keyboard label value CPU Intel 8080 (NEC version) label value SPEED Unknown label value RAM 32 KB label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 80 columns x 24 lines label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS Monochrome label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Unknown label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 8'' FDD, optional 7 MB 8'' hard disk\ Programs loading was done by a minicassete software called PIOC (Program Input Output Cassette) label value OS PHOCAL (Philips Office Computer Assembler Language) label value POWER SUPPLY Unknown label value PRICE About 15,000 (Belgium) photos hardware 358 title subtitle text image PHILIPS P/330 WITH OPENED FDD /media/museum/photos/p330-2.jpg title subtitle text image PHILIPS P/430 KEYBOARD AND CONTROL PANEL We are looking information about this machine.\ Holger Groh is also looking for any technical information and documentation in order to bring his P/430 back to life. Thanks to **Holger Groh** /media/museum/photos/philips_p430_keyboard_s1.jpg title subtitle text image 16-INCH HDD Same capacity as a basic usb key but 10,000 times more heavy! thanks to **Dani** for the picture /media/museum/photos/philips_p330_8inchhdd_s1.jpg title subtitle text image P-3320 PRINTER This printer used full DIN A3 fanfold paper and printed 200 lines per minute. /media/museum/hardware/philips_p5200_p3320printer_s1.jpg title subtitle text image ROM CARD #1 Two ROM cards are connected together, side by side. Thanks to **Dani Galan** for all card pictures. /media/museum/hardware/philips_p330_romboard_s1.jpg title subtitle text image ROM CARD #2 /media/museum/hardware/philips_p330_cpuboard_s2.jpg title subtitle text image RAM CARD 32 KB RAM card (16x4116 chips). Provision is made for a second 32 KB RAM bank. /media/museum/hardware/philips_p330_ramboard_s1.jpg title subtitle text image CPU CARD Notice the NEC 8080 processor at the upper right corner. I/O chips come also from NEC and Intel. /media/museum/hardware/philips_p330_cpuboard_s1.jpg title subtitle text image FDD CARD #1 Like the ROM cards, two FDD cards are connected together. /media/museum/hardware/philips_p330_fddcard_s1.jpg title subtitle text image FDD CARD #2 The second FDD card uses its own 8080 microprocessor, also a NEC version. /media/museum/hardware/philips_p330_fddcard_s2.jpg 354 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20221205114316/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=354 2022-12-05

These photos were sent by Pablo Alvarez Doval (Thank you!). This computer belongs to his uncle, unfortunately, he has no information about it. He says: "It's a huge computer, built in a metallic desk, with a printer, two 8" floppy drives, 12" green-screen monitor (I am not sure, but I do believe it is 12"), and a keyboard, everything you needed built in. It even had a chair to compliment it! Obviously, it is some kind of office computer".

It has indeed a 12" screen (white characters 25 x 80) en two 8" floppy drives 1,2 MB. A harddisk was optional. The programming language was Phocal. (Philips Office Computer Assembly Language).

The printer was a 9 pins dot matrix, 100 cps. The P330 was the last product of the Philips Office computers series. Then Philips came with the mircro computers and later the IBM compatibele PC's.

In 1992 the Philips computer line was ended.

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Contributors : Pablo Alvarez Doval, Roy Van Der Lee

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