My classiccmp non-retirement , now Philips

[Tony Duell]

> In my workplace they used Philips ( one l please , not two...) P856 and 
> P857
>   16 bit minicomputers to test watch IC's. All these minis were dumped, 
> I rescued just one , plus some spare boards to keep it running.
> No software could be found to for them.

I got some 8" floppies with my P851 and P854 machines, at least one of 
which is claimed to be an OS boot disk. I've not done anything with them 
yet, but they are safe.

A fried wrote a monitor program from the P850, which loads from paper 
tape. I should still have the source and binary around. I would have to 
ask him what the copyright situation is, but I can't believe he would 
object to another enthusiast running it.

-tony