Get things going - with the Philips portable P2000C

The spec of this machine makes it seem almost like an update to <a href="az_personal_computers_1984-10_005">1984's KayPro</a>, with a similar 9" green-screen monitor and 5¼" floppies - in this version capable of storing up to 640K. 

The machine ran two Z80A processors, one of which was just for I/O[source: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/14769/Philips-P2000C-P2012/]. 

It retailed at £995 ([[995|1985]] in [[now]]) for the entry-level P2010 8-bit model with two 160K floppies, up to £1,990 ([[1990|1985]]) for the top-end model with 8088 co-processor for 16-bit action, 352K RAM and a 640K floppy. 

Philips didn't do a huge amount of advertising - this particular advert only seemed to appear once, although the paperclip-with-a-shoe motif carried on for a while. 

What advertising it did do didn't seem to come across that positively, and its products - like 1983's P3500 - came across as "very ordinary". Guy Kewney, writing in October 1983's PCW even said of one of its press releases that:

~"Philips, the Dutch electronics giant, has lost none of its famous ability to make its products sound at least no worse than they are"[source: "Mutual support", Newsprint, PCW, October 1983, p. 131].
