P2000: Ранний домашний компьютер от Philips

Early home computer
The P2000 systems can be emulated with the MESS software, and since 2015 they are part of MAME.

The P2000T was a Z80 based home computer that used a Mullard SAA5050 teletext display chip to produce the video picture and a small Mini Cassette recorder for 42 kilobytes of mass storage capacity. The Mini Cassette was treated as a floppy drive from the user's perspective while using the automatic search for a program (CLOAD command) or free space (CSAVE). A command to display the directory of the cassette also exists. It was also possible to use cassette tape floppies. Although the teletext video chip permitted a quick entry into the home computer market, it was also the major weakness of the P2000T. Using the teletext standard in itself was not a bad idea because it did support eight colors and rudimentary semigraphics. But unlike later entries in the home computer market also supporting a teletext display mode, such as the venerable BBC computer and the Oric Atmos, the P2000T did not support a high resolution display mode. This made it very difficult to develop interesting games for it, with only a few titles being released. As a result, the P2000T had only limited success, and Philips later replaced it with their MSX machines. The machine did gain popularity in Netherlands, especially in the areas of science, education,

The P2000M incorporated two 5¼ inch floppy disk drives, besides a built in monochrome screen. It could run CP/M or Microsoft BASIC applications, depending on the cartridge used. It was incompatible with the P2000T due to the way it handled display of special characters (color, "graphics mode"), which made most P2000T games unplayable.