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Why does the PC2000 have two floppy disk drives instead of 1?

wie viel kostet heute so eine PCC 2000 zu kaufen würde mich interessieren

@Jaco Engelbrecht, is your grandma still alive? i mean, should i congratulate you on inheriting it already ? :)
BTW, wanna sell it out?

My grandma has a PCC 2000, Though it''s labelled as a Philips P3000. It definitely is a PCC 2000 though. But, this being South-Africa, we had sanctions and stuff, and companies would do things like this to get around it. I checked the forum and it looks pretty much dead... Actually wanted to ask about the P3000 on it, until I found this

I''ll inherit it one day. Right now, it''s in her garage roof. Just got a chance to see it, and took a few pics. Sadly, due to the weight, I never got the opportunity to boot her up. Will possibly only be there again in December, 5 months away...

It should still work. No physical damage. Can''t wait to try boot it up...

I was a Pertec dealer in the late 70''s when it was introduced, programming and installing small business applications. I never sold a CP/M version. My interest was the MTX operating system, which was a very small multi-user system with Business BASIC. It support 5-users in only 64K memory, where 4-users were dumb terminals. The language was a clone of the very popular mini-computer OS from MAI Basic Four sold during the 60''s and 70''s. The 10MB disk drive was the size of a washing machine, with 5MB fixed and 5MB removable platter. I installed several of these, but most clients did not require more than the two diskette drives built into the unit. It was five years before the IBM PC was introduced, which I also sold through my Computerland store, but the Pertec was a much more advanced computer because of the MTX OS and Business BASIC.

can you imagine... this small step towards Personal computing took US$6.5 million per PC

In the December 1978 issue of Computer Magazine there is info about the speed of the processor is 3 MHz...