Philips P2000

The Philips P2000T home computer was Philips' first real entry in the home computer market, after the Philips Videopac G7000 game system (better known in the U.S. as the Magnavox Odyssey2) which they already sold to compete with the Atari 2600 and similar game systems.

Basically the P2000T was a Z80 based home computer that used a Teletext display chip to produce the video picture and a small Dictaphone cassette recorder for mass storage. It seems that Philips used components they already produced for other markets (Televisions and Dictaphones) to quickly design a small computer system. It was partially designed by Austrian professor Dieter Hammer.

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