Philips Computers
{{Short description|Subsidiary of the company Philips}}
Philips Telecommunicatie en Informatie Systemen (Philips Computers) was a subsidiary of Philips that designed and manufactured personal computers.{{cite web |last=van der Lee |first=Roy |title=Philips Telecommunicatie en Informatie Systemen |url=http://www.ptis.nl/website_ptis |url-status=dead |website=www.ptis.nl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706040649/http://www.ptis.nl/website_ptis |archive-date=2018-07-06 }}{{cite web |last=Läppinen |first=Arne |title=The Rise and Fall of Philips Data Systems |url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1842013}} Philips Computers was active from 1963 through 1992.{{cite web|url=http://www.ptis.nl/website_ptis/Page_Geschiedenis_01/JXMAACT4puZmWHBhYW1NRUtzAQA?WD_ACTION_=MENU&ID=GESCHIEDENIS_1_4|title=Erreur|website=www.ptis.nl}} Before that, Philips produced three computers between 1953 and 1956, all for internal use, PETER, STEVIN, and PASCAL.{{cite journal |last1=Voogd |first1=Fanta |title=Hoe Philips de boot miste |journal=De Ingeneur |date=July 2019 |volume=131 |issue=7 |pages=60–61 |language=Dutch}}
Philips Computers was mostly known for its pioneer work in optical devices (through a separate subsidiary: LMSI). Philips computers were also sold under the Magnavox brand in North America. Two instances of Philips Computers products sold under other brands are known to date.
Philips computers were coupled with Philips monitors. Philips had far more success selling its monitors than its computers. Philips monitors continue being designed, produced and sold globally contemporaneously. Philips also had and has moderate success selling peripherals such as mice, keyboards and optical devices. Philips also sold and sells computer media such as diskettes and optical media (CD)s.
Philips also developed the CD-i standard but it flopped. Another experimental product was the Philips :YES, based on Intel's 80186. It also flopped.
Philips PCs were mostly equipped with motherboards designed by Philips Home Electronics in Montreal, Canada.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69648Y1sOewC&q=magnavox+headstart&pg=PA445|title=The Bios Companion|first=Phil|last=Croucher|date=12 January 2018|publisher=Lulu.com|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-9681928-0-1}}
In the late 1990s Philips Pentium PCs were sold based on generic components and cases. These were not proprietarily designed and produced.
Philips had a subsidiary that sold the PCs under the Vendex brand: HeadStart.{{Cite news|url=https://mobile.nytimes.com/1989/11/28/science/personal-computers-cd-rom-for-the-common-man.html|title=PERSONAL COMPUTERS; CD-ROM for the Common Man – The New York Times| newspaper=The New York Times | date=28 November 1989 | last1=Lewis | first1=Peter H. }} These systems were actively marketed in certain markets through Vendex. These systems were on display in the now defunct warehouse chain Vroom & Dreesmann in the Netherlands. Some HeadStart PCs were manufactured in South Korea by Samsung and monitors by Daewoo.{{Cite news |last=Ferrell |first=Keith |date=July 1987 |title=IBM Compatibles - The Universe Expands |pages=14 |work=COMPUTE! |issue=86 |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue86/007_1_IBM_Compatibles.php}}
In the 2000s Philips briefly introduced a handheld PC: the Velo.
Products
P 20 series (Z80 CPU)
- Philips P 2000 C
- Philips P 2000 M
- Philips P 2000 T
- Philips P 2010
- Philips P 2012
- Philips P 2015
P 21 series (8088 CPU)
- Philips P 2120 (desktop) (1990s green design)
P 22 series (286 CPU)
- Philips P 2230 (desktop) (1990s green design)
P 31 series (8088 CPU)File:Philips P3103.jpg
- Philips P 3100 (desktop){{cite web|url=http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/garage.html|title=Kees' Computerhome page: Garage 1|website=home.iae.nl}}
- Philips P 3102 (desktop){{cite web|url=https://hblankes.home.xs4all.nl/Museum/txt/p3102.htm|title=Philips P3102, computer collection Herbert Blankesteijn|website=hblankes.home.xs4all.nl}}
- Philips P 3103 (desktop) (1980s red design){{cite web|url=https://www.pechm.org/|title=pechm|website=pechm}}
- Philips P 3105 (desktop)
- Philips P 3120 (desktop)
P 32 series (286 CPU)
- Philips P 3202 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips P 3204 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips P 3230 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips P 3238 (desktop) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3239 (desktop) (1990s futuristic design)
P 33 series (386 CPU)File:Philips P 3361.jpg
- Philips P 3302 (not yet identified)
- Philips P 3345 (desktop) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3348 (desktop) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3355 (desktop) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3360 (desktop) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3361 (desktop) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3370 (tower) (1990s green design){{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123586057/|title=The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on May 8, 1989 · Page 26|website=Newspapers.com|date=8 May 1989 }}
- Philips P 3371 (not yet identified)
P 34 series (486 CPU)
- Philips P 3460 (midi tower) (1990s green design)
- Philips P 3464 (not yet identified)
- Philips P 3470 (not yet identified)
- Philips P 3471 (not yet identified)
= [[MSX]] compatible =
File:Philips VG 8000-00 MSX computer (RetroMadrid 2017).jpg]]File:Philips VG-8010.jpgFile:MSX Philips VG8020.jpg]]Philips supported the MSX standard, and released many MSX1 and MSX2 computers, with different hardware and expansions like monitors, printers and mice.{{Cite web |title=Philips |url=https://www.msx.org/wiki/Category:Philips |website=MSX resource center}} They also introduced the MSX-AUDIO standard to the MSX with the NMS-1205 Music Module, and video editing with the NMS-8280.
- Philips VG-8000 (1984, Belgium, Germany, Finland)
- Philips VG-8010 (1985, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips VG-8020 (1985, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips NMS 800 (1989, Italy)
- Philips NMS 801 (1989, Italy)
= MSX2 compatible =
File:PIC 0458 Philips NMS8250 MSX2.JPG]]
File:Philips NMS-8280 total.jpg]]
- Philips VG-8230 (1986, Netherlands)
- Philips VG-8235 (1986, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips VG-8240 (1986, prototype)
- Philips NMS 8220 (1987, Belgium, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips NMS 8245 (1987, Belgium, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips NMS 8250/8255 (1987, Belgium, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips NMS 8260 (1987, prototype)
- Philips NMS 8280 (1987, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands)
- Philips HCS 280 (1990, Spain, Italy, Netherlands)
= NMS series =
- Philips NMS 9100 8088 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS 9100 AT 80286 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS 9105 8088 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS 9110 8088 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS 9111 8088 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS 9115 8088 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS 9116 8088 (desktop) (1980s red design)
- Philips NMS TC 100 8088 (desktop) (1990s green design){{cite web |url=http://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/02/philips-nms-tc-100.html#!/2018/02/philips-nms-tc-100.html |title=IBM ValuePoint Collection: Philips NMS TC 100 |website=ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214202811/http://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/02/philips-nms-tc-100.html |archive-date=2018-02-14}}
= PCD series <small>(with [[CD-ROM]])</small> =
- Philips PCD 102 (8088 desktop) (no CD-ROM){{cite web |url=https://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/12/philips-pcd-102.html#!/2018/12/philips-pcd-102.html |title=IBM ValuePoint Collection: Philips PCD 102 |website=ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005844/https://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/12/philips-pcd-102.html |archive-date=2018-12-04}}
- Philips PCD 103 (8088 desktop) (no CD-ROM){{cite web|url=https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/15633943-monitor-retro-philips-bm7513-00i-do-commodore-with|title=Monitor RETRO Philips BM7513/00I do Commodore with|website=Catawiki}}
- Philips PCD 200 (286) desktop) (no CD-ROM){{cite web|url=http://oldcomputer.info/pc/Philips200/index.htm|title=Philips PCD 200 – MCbx|website=oldcomputer.info}}
- Philips PCD 203 (286 desktop) (no CD-ROM)
- Philips PCD 204 (286 desktop)
- Philips PCD 304 (386 desktop)
- Philips PCD 308 (386 desktop)
- Philips PCD 318 (386 desktop){{cite web |url=https://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/12/philips-pcd-318.html |title=IBM ValuePoint Collection: Philips PCD 318 |website=ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005911/https://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/12/philips-pcd-318.html |archive-date=2018-12-04}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cc-computerarchiv.de|title=CC-Computerarchiv: Computermarkt Deutschland 1971–2001|first=Ulf|last=Lesemann|website=www.cc-computerarchiv.de}}
= PCL series <small>([[notebook computer]]s)</small> =
- Philips PCL 101 (8086 grey notebook)
- Philips PCL 203 (80286 grey notebook){{Cite web |title=Personal computers |url=https://www.retroforum.nl/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://www.mfbfreaks.nl/folders/1991/2/images/pag191.JPG&key=9398e332ee0e9377e01530f7d0f30df1f2bc42bb4c587657a736b2997c4c292c| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125074614/https://www.retroforum.nl/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://www.mfbfreaks.nl/folders/1991/2/images/pag191.JPG&key=9398e332ee0e9377e01530f7d0f30df1f2bc42bb4c587657a736b2997c4c292c | archive-date=2018-01-25 }}
- Philips PCL 304 (80386 dark gray notebook){{Cite web |date=2018-07-07 |title=RARE VINTAGE Philips PCL304/00 notebook laptop computer {{!}} eBay |url=https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263799614551 |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707041844/https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263799614551 |archive-date=2018-07-07 }}
- Philips PCL 320 (80386 dark grey notebook){{cite web |url=http://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/07/philips-pcl-386.html#!/2018/07/philips-pcl-386.html |title=IBM ValuePoint Collection: Philips PCL 320 |website=ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705232851/http://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/07/philips-pcl-386.html |archive-date=2018-07-05}}{{cite web | url=http://cgi.ebay.at/282388586589 | title=Philips PCL 326/02, PCL 320 Vintage Laptop, i386, 6MB RAM, TOP Zustand }}
= Philips Internal Reference <small>(not sold)</small> =
- Avenger (sold as: MaxStation 286, Magnum GL, Headstart 300)
- P 3212 (sold as: MaxStation 480, Headstart 380)
- P 3239 (sold as: Headstart/MaxStation/Magnum/Professional 1200, 48CD, 1600, 64CD, P160, SR16CD)
- P 3349 (sold as: Headstart/MaxStation/Magnum/Professional SX20, 80CD)
- P 3345 (sold as: Magnavox/MaxStation 386SX, Magnum SX, Headstart Series 500)
- P 3371 (sold as: Headstart/MaxStation/Magnum/Professional 3300)
= Third Parties =
- Wang LE 150 (8088 based on P 3105 desktop){{cite web|url=https://pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=611|title=The Personal Computer Museum, Brantford, Ontario, CANADA – Recycle, donate, and browse your old computers, electronics, video games, and software|website=pcmuseum.ca}}
- Argent Technologies 286{{cite web|url=https://fccid.io/JGMARG286|title=FCC ID JGMARG286 Desktop Computer by Argent Technologies Inc|first=FCC|last=ID|website=FCC ID}} (desktop, not yet confirmed)
- Argent Technologies 386 SX{{cite web|url=https://fccid.io/JGMARG386SX|title=FCC ID JGMARG386SX Desktop Computer by Argent Technologies Inc|first=FCC|last=ID|website=FCC ID}} (desktop, not yet confirmed)
- Argent Technologies 386 DX{{cite web|url=https://fccid.io/JGMARG386DX|title=FCC ID JGMARG386DX Desktop Computer by Argent Technologies Inc|first=FCC|last=ID|website=FCC ID}} (desktop, not yet confirmed)
- Argent Technologies 486 DX 33 (486 based on P 3355 desktop)
- Argent Technologies 486 MT{{cite web|url=https://fccid.io/JGMARG486MT|title=FCC ID JGMARG486MT Mini Tower Computer by Argent Technologies Inc|first=FCC|last=ID|website=FCC ID}} (mini tower, not yet confirmed)
= Vendex HeadStart =
- HeadStart Turbo 888 XT, 8088 desktop.{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/iq1svintagevault/8086-8088-resources/vendex-shrine|title=Vendex Shrine – IQ's Vintage Vault|website=sites.google.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?47370-HeadStart-Vendex-TURBO-888-XT-Switch-settings|title=HeadStart Vendex TURBO-888-XT Switch settings|website=Vintage Computer Forum}}
- HeadStart Explorer, 8088 Amiga 500 style.{{cite web|url=http://oldcomputer.info/pc/hs_explorer/index.htm|title=Vendex HeadStart Explorer – MCbx|website=oldcomputer.info}}
- HeadStart Plus, 8088 desktop.{{cite web|url=http://oldcomputer.info/pc/hs_plus/index.htm|title=Vendex HeadStart Plus – MCbx|website=oldcomputer.info}}
- HeadStart LX-40, 8088 desktop.{{cite web|url=http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?23525-HeadStart-LX-40-anyone-know-of-it|title=HeadStart LX-40, anyone know of it?|website=Vintage Computer Forum}}
- HeadStart LX-CD, 8088 desktop with CD-ROM.
- HeadStart II, 8088 desktop.
- HeadStart III, 286 desktop (made in Korea).
- HeadStart III CD, 286 desktop with CD-ROM.
- HeadStart Pro, 286 & 386.{{Cite news |date=August 1, 1988 |title=Vendex bundles graphics software with its PCs |volume=10 |pages=23 |work=InfoWorld |issue=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDoEAAAAMBAJ&q=vendex+headstart+%22pro%22&pg=PA23}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/07/science/peripherals-package-for-quick-start.html|title=PERIPHERALS; Package for Quick Start – The New York Times|website=The New York Times| date=7 March 1989 | last1=Shannon | first1=L. r. }}{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Robert |date=May 23, 1988 |title=Two-chip module can convert Ventex's 80286 Headstart Pro to 80386 computer |pages=30 |work=InfoWorld |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4T4EAAAAMBAJ&q=vendex+headstart+%22pro%22&pg=PA30}}
= Monitors – Vendex =
= Peripherals =
- Philips P 2813 keyboard: shipped with PCs with 8088 through 386 processors (also shipped with Magnavox logo)
- Philips P 2814 keyboard: shipped with PCs with 286 and up processors (also shipped with Magnavox logo)
- Philips serial mouse, FCC ID FSU4VVGMZAS: shipped with PCs with 8088 through 386 processors (not clear whether also shipped with Magnavox logo)
- Philips NMS 1140 mouse: shipped with MSX systems{{cite web|url=https://forums.generation-msx.nl/read.php?5,9123,9123|title=Philips NMS 1140 Mouse Photo's|website=forums.generation-msx.nl}}
- Philips NMS 1445 mouse: shipped with PCs with 8088 processors{{Cite web |date=2018-09-13 |title=≥ Philips muis - Elektronische Apparatuur - Marktplaats.nl |url=https://www.marktplaats.nl/a/verzamelen/elektronische-apparatuur/m1318141756-philips-muis.html?c=9b26ed2a557deff636f4f8b9c5b7a618 |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913040256/https://www.marktplaats.nl/a/verzamelen/elektronische-apparatuur/m1318141756-philips-muis.html?c=9b26ed2a557deff636f4f8b9c5b7a618 |archive-date=2018-09-13 }} (not clear whether also shipped with Magnavox logo)
References
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