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Pertec PCC 2000	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1978	Intel 8085	name image company company_name specs tabs adverts links comments oc_id source PCC 2000 /media/museum/photos/pertec_pcc2000_1.jpg /companies/pertec Pertec label value NAME PCC 2000 label value MANUFACTURER Pertec label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1978 label value END OF PRODUCTION Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknown label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke QWERTY keyboard with editing and numeric keypads. 12 function keys label value CPU Intel 8085 label value SPEED 3 Mhz label value CO-PROCESSOR Unknown label value RAM 64 KB (up to 1MB) label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Unknown label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknown label value COLORS No label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Unknown label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 8'' floppy disk-drives (500 KB/axis) label value OS MTX (multi-user operating system), CP/M optional label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply label value PERIPHERALS 10 MB hard disks, floppy disk drives, dumb terminals, printers label value PRICE Unknown adverts links title subtitle text image PROMOTIONAL PICTURE thanks to datareign.co.uk for this picture /media/museum/pubs/pertec_pcc2000_pub_1.jpg title url text datareign.co.uk http://datareign.co.uk/doku.php?id=1978_pertec_pcc-2000 detailed info about the PCC 2000 author date text Daryl (South Africa) Tuesday 24th December 2019 Why does the PC2000 have two floppy disk drives instead of 1? author date text Gashi (Germany) Wednesday 2nd August 2017 wie viel kostet heute so eine PCC 2000 zu kaufen würde mich interessieren author date text Guru Thursday 7th May 2015 @Jaco Engelbrecht, is your grandma still alive? i mean, should i congratulate you on inheriting it already ? :)\ BTW, wanna sell it out? author date text Jaco Engelbrecht (South Africa) Saturday 12th July 2014 My grandma has a PCC 2000, Though it''s labelled as a Philips P3000. It definitely is a PCC 2000 though. But, this being South-Africa, we had sanctions and stuff, and companies would do things like this to get around it. I checked the forum and it looks pretty much dead... Actually wanted to ask about the P3000 on it, until I found this I''ll inherit it one day. Right now, it''s in her garage roof. Just got a chance to see it, and took a few pics. Sadly, due to the weight, I never got the opportunity to boot her up. Will possibly only be there again in December, 5 months away... It should still work. No physical damage. Can''t wait to try boot it up... author date text Dan E. (NV / USA) Saturday 26th May 2012 I was a Pertec dealer in the late 70''s when it was introduced, programming and installing small business applications. I never sold a CP/M version. My interest was the MTX operating system, which was a very small multi-user system with Business BASIC. It support 5-users in only 64K memory, where 4-users were dumb terminals. The language was a clone of the very popular mini-computer OS from MAI Basic Four sold during the 60''s and 70''s. The 10MB disk drive was the size of a washing machine, with 5MB fixed and 5MB removable platter. I installed several of these, but most clients did not require more than the two diskette drives built into the unit. It was five years before the IBM PC was introduced, which I also sold through my Computerland store, but the Pertec was a much more advanced computer because of the MTX OS and Business BASIC. author date text Tarun Tyagi Friday 26th August 2011 can you imagine... this small step towards Personal computing took US$6.5 million per PC author date text Alexander Picoli (Brazil) Thursday 3rd February 2011 In the December 1978 issue of Computer Magazine there is info about the speed of the processor is 3 MHz... 1300 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230205002057/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1300 2023-02-05

PCC 2000 is a professional computer released in 1978. It was designed in 1978 by Pertec, the company which merged with MITS by the end of 1976.

The PCC is conceived as a monobloc machine, where the display and two 8" floppy disk drives are built-in the main case. The mechanical keyboard offers separated numeric and editing keypads.

The system is powered by an Intel 8085 microprocessor and offers 64 KB RAM. The whole thing was apparently delivered with an extended Basic language, which has DOS commands built-in to control the disk drives.

Options advertised were:
- CP/M, Cobol, Fortran, Basic compiler languages
- 10 MB hard disk
- wordprocessor software
- multi-terminals
- multi-tasking

The PCC 2000 was originaly called the MITS 300/15 and renamed to reflect the Pertec brand. This machine replaced the MITS Altair S-100 computers.

The PCC 2000 was also marketed by Ordisor in France, as the Ordisor PCC 2000.