Philips P5002, P5003 etc.

These were text-processing microcomputers, but they evidently also had some kind of spread-sheet like facility.

The P5003’s lasting claim to fame, will probably be its cameo in Q’s lab in the James Bond Movie “For Your Eyes Only”.

Usage

from autoarchaeologist.vendor.philipsdatasystems import p500x
…
self.add_examiner(*p500x.ALL)

Options

p500x.P500x.OPT_CHECK_FREE_LIST = False

Enable diagnostic check of free-list consistency.

p500x.P500x.OPT_HUNT_ORPHANS = True

Hunt for orphan/deleted files.

Notes

Reverse-engineered from a dozen of 8” floppy images.

Note that formatting the floppy only writes four valid sectors per track, so to work with FloppyTools cache files, all addressing have to be by track&sector numbers.

Test input

• QR:50006570 … QR:50006582

Documentation

Very little documentation seems to have survived, archive.org has a few documents, none of them with any technical details.

The floppy disk format is bespoke and supported in FloppyTools