Need parts or whole machine for/ of Philips office computer P359 (P350 series)

[horniger]

Hi

I bought a Philips P359 office computer from the 70s.
Or to be more precise, I got its housing without the computer.
Or to be more precise without the electronics.

The seller told me, he didin't knew, that the electronics was missing.

Because I don't want scrap the whole machine, I hope I can find spare parts for it and may rebuild it - even if my chances are very bad.

So maybe someone has of you still has such a computer or my electronics or parts of it or knows someone who has them.
It's the Philips office computer series P350 (i.e. P351, P352, P353, P354, P359)

The computer (P359) once looked like this:


The wanted CPU parts, which are missing look like this:



thanks and all the best

Rainer

 

[whartung]

So is this a printing terminal and computer with a built in card reader/card punch?

I think if you can get that just up and moving using...anything...(RPi simulator for example), it would be an impressive display.

 

[Al Kossow]

It is a magnetic ledger machine. You can see the ledger page with the mag stripe on the left

 

[horniger]

In general it was an office/ accounting computer, which could be ordered in various configurations. Different printer types or magnetic ledger unit.
The punched card unit was to feed the machines with its programs.
It was completely free programmable.
It used a TTL based CPU and core memory.

The SIEMAG accounting computers DATA 4000 / 8000 (++) (discrete/ transistor based CPU) were bought by Philips by the end of the 60s. The same company but with the Philips name developed the TTL based office computers P 350 series (like this one) and later the P300 series (i8080 based) - i.e. the P330.

 

[horniger]

Addendum:
the original seller of the P359 published an image of the P359 electronics without knwoing what it was and by asking to buy it, he told me that it was sold and he can't remember the buyer....