https://www.stirlingcryogenics.eu/
These machines are still made and indeed are very cool. ;-) Tom On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 4:54 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Sep 30, 2022, at 1:12 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > >> ... > > > > Note that there are (at least) _two_ Philips museums: the "Stichting tot > > Behoud van Historische Philips Producten" (Foundation for the > Preservation > > of Historic Philips Products) and the Philips Museum. Their websites are > > https://www.sbhp.nl/ and https://www.philips-museum.com/. Both are in > > Eindhoven, as is much of the interesting bits of Philips itself. > > > > The former appears to be volunteer collectors of mainly analogue-era > Philips > > gear and I can almost smell the chain-smoked roll-ups just from the > photos, > > whereas the latter looks rather more corporate. > > It's hard to see what the significance of the latter is, if any. The > website has a "collection" tab that doesn't say anything about a > collection. The "eyecatchers" tab speaks of an exhibit of Philips > advertising posters. Ok, nice, but what does that have to do with the > technology and products and enormous R&D contribution of the company? > > The former at least shows something about the collection, a set of nice > photos of stuff. That and a hint that there is more -- but no description > of what that might be. > > I keep wondering if anything whatsoever about the PR8000 has been > preserved anywhere. I have a marketing brochure that I scanned and sent to > Bitsavers, plus some notes about the parts of the instruction set that show > up in a program of mine. But I've never seen anything else, even finding > any mention of the machine is nearly impossible. > > I still regret I didn't save the Stirling cryogenic machine brochures I > had as a teenager -- neat machines Philips built for easily and cheaply > making lab quantities of liquid nitrogen and even liquid helium. Some were > backpack size, apparently for airborne applications. I also had a brochure > of their neutron generator tube, which is a pretty wild device. > > paul > > >
