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
>
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