Philips Computers

Philips Telecommunicatie en Informatie Systemen (Philips Computers) was a subsidiary of Philips that designed and manufactured personal computers.[1] Philips Computers was active from 1963 through 1992.[2]

Philips Computers was mostly known for its pioneer work in optical devices (through a separate subsidiary: LMSI). Philips computers were 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.

Philips PCs were mostly equipped with motherboards designed by Philips Home Electronics in Montreal, Canada.[3]

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 relied on Philips manufacturing of it's PCs: Headstart.[4] 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. Certain Headstart models may have been manufactured in South Korea by Samsung.[5]

Products

  • P 20 series Z80
  • Philips P 2000 C
  • Philips P 2010
  • Philips P 2012
  • Philips P 2015
  • P 21 series 8088
  • Philips P 2120 (desktop) (1990s green design)
  • P 22 series 286
  • Philips P 2230 (desktop) (1990s green design)
  • P 31 series 8088
  • Philips P 3100 (desktop) [6]
  • Philips P 3102 (desktop)[7]
  • Philips P 3103 (desktop) (1980s red design)[8]
  • Philips P 3105 (desktop)
  • Philips P 3120 (desktop)
  • P 32 series 286
  • 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)
  • P 33 series 386
  • 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 (not yet identified)
  • Philips P 3370 (tower) (1990s green design)[9]
  • Philips P 3371 (not yet identified)
  • P 34 series 486
  • 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)

NMS series

PCD series (with CD-ROM)

  • Philips PCD 103 (8088 desktop) (no CD-ROM)[10]
  • Philips PCD 200 (286) desktop) (no CD-ROM)[11]
  • Philips PCD 203 (286 desktop) (no CD-ROM)[12]
  • Philips PCD 204 (286 desktop)
  • Philips PCD 304 (386 desktop)
  • Philips PCD 308 (386 desktop)

[13]

PCL series (notebook computers

  • Philips PCL 101 (8086 grey notebook)
  • Philips PCL 203 (80286 grey notebook)[14]
  • Philips PCL 304 (80386 dark gray notebook)[15]
  • Philips PCL 320 (80386 dark grey notebook)[16][17]

Magnavox

  • Magnavox M16034GY System 160
  • Magnavox M1101GY System 110
  • Magnavox M38044GY System 380
  • Magnavox M58044GY System 580SX
  • Magnavox Headstart 286 (286 1990s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 300 (286 1980s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 300 CD (286 1980s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 500 (386 1980s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 500 CD (386 1980s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 386 SX (286 1990s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 386 SX-16 (386 1990s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 386 SX/20 (386 1990s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 386/33 (386 (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox Headstart 486 SX (486 1990s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Headstart 486 DX (486 1990s grey design desktop)
  • Magnavox Magnum GL (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox Magnum SX (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox MaxStation 286 (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox MaxStation 386-SX (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox MaxStation 386SX/16 (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox MaxStation 380 (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox MaxStation 480 (not yet identified)
  • Magnavox Metalis SX/16 (386) (dark grey notebook)
  • Magnavox Metalis SX/20 (386) (dark grey notebook)

[18]

  • Magnavox Professional 386 SX-20 (386 1990s grey design desktop)[19]

Philips Internal Reference (not sold)

  • 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)[20]
  • Argent Technologies 286[21] (desktop, not yet confirmed)
  • Argent Technologies 386 SX[22] (desktop, not yet confirmed)
  • Argent Technologies 386 DX[23] (desktop, not yet confirmed)
  • Argent Technologies 486 DX 33 (486 based on P 3355 desktop)
  • Argent Technologies 486 MT[24] (mini tower, not yet confirmed)

Headstart

  • Headstart Turbo 888 XT, 8088 desktop.[25][26][27]
  • Headstart Explorer, 8088 Amiga 500 style.[28]
  • Headstart Plus, 8088 desktop.[29]
  • Headstart LX-40, 8088 desktop.[30]
  • Headstart LX-CD, 8088 desktop with CD-ROM.
  • Headstart II, 8088 desktop.
  • Headstart III, 286 desktop.
  • Headstart III CD, 286 desktop with CD-ROM.

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[31]
  • Philips NMS 1445 mouse: shipped with PCs with 8088 processors[32] (not clear whether also shipped with Magnavox logo)

References

  1. ↑ "Erreur". www.ptis.nl.
  2. ↑ "Erreur". www.ptis.nl.
  3. ↑ Croucher, Phil (12 January 2018). "The Bios Companion". Lulu.com – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ https://mobile.nytimes.com/1989/11/28/science/personal-computers-cd-rom-for-the-common-man.html
  5. ↑ https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue86/007_1_IBM_Compatibles.php
  6. ↑ http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/garage.html
  7. ↑ https://hblankes.home.xs4all.nl/Museum/txt/p3102.htm
  8. ↑ http://www2.csdm.qc.ca/pec/codes/frameb.html
  9. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123586057
  10. ↑ https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/15633943-monitor-retro-philips-bm7513-00i-do-commodore-with
  11. ↑ http://oldcomputer.info/pc/Philips200/index.htm
  12. ↑ http://oldcomputer.info/pc/Philips200/index.htm
  13. ↑ Lesemann, Ulf. "CC-Computerarchiv: Computermarkt Deutschland 1971-2001". www.cc-computerarchiv.de.
  14. ↑ https://www.retroforum.nl/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://www.mfbfreaks.nl/folders/1991/2/images/pag191.JPG&key=9398e332ee0e9377e01530f7d0f30df1f2bc42bb4c587657a736b2997c4c292c>
  15. ↑ http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/263799614551
  16. ↑ http://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/07/philips-pcl-386.html#!/2018/07/philips-pcl-386.html
  17. ↑ <http://cgi.ebay.at/282388586589
  18. ↑ Inc, Ziff Davis (26 May 1992). "PC Mag". Ziff Davis, Inc. – via Google Books.
  19. ↑ http://ibmvaluepoint.blogspot.com/2018/06/magnavox-professional-386-sx-20.html
  20. ↑ http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=611
  21. ↑ https://fccid.io/JGMARG286
  22. ↑ https://fccid.io/JGMARG386SX
  23. ↑ https://fccid.io/JGMARG386DX
  24. ↑ https://fccid.io/JGMARG486MT
  25. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/iq1svintagevault/8086-8088-resources/vendex-shrine
  26. ↑ http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?47370-HeadStart-Vendex-TURBO-888-XT-Switch-settings
  27. ↑ http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?44915-Wanted-Vendex-Headstart-Turbo-888-XT
  28. ↑ http://oldcomputer.info/pc/hs_explorer/index.htm
  29. ↑ http://oldcomputer.info/pc/hs_plus/index.htm
  30. ↑ http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?23525-HeadStart-LX-40-anyone-know-of-it
  31. ↑ https://forums.generation-msx.nl/read.php?5,9123,9123
  32. ↑ https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1318141756
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