Yes, it's the P2000T, otherwise known as 'the what?' unless you were at a Dutch school in the 80s when they were everywhere. Being designed for an education market AND using the viewdata character set means their gaming capability is limited to poor. People DID write games though, and hey - Pac-Man in a Viewdata character set needs to be seen to be believed.

Given the size of the machine you'd think it'd be hugely capable, but you'd be wrong. It could hold two cartridges though, and for most usages these were BASIC and Word Processing. I bought this one direct from Bart at the HomeComputer Museum in The Netherlands so everything is in Dutch but that doesn't matter - I've wanted one of these ever since I knew they existed. Typically for a Philips the power button has disintegrated so most people just connected the wires together and bypassed the switch altogether. Oddly enough my P2000C Portable has this exact problem, as does pretty much every CM8833 monitor.

What differentiated this machine from the others was the includsion of a Philips tape transport which used the same microcassettes as dictation machines and the STC Executel. The cassette was treated like a floppy disk once you learned how to use it. After typing in the UK Prestel Engineering Test Page in the BASIC I tried to save it to tape and decided that the big "R" button next to the tape transport was the 'tape rewind' key. One very quick ohnosecond later I realised it was actually RESET, so on the one hand I'd erased my program but on the other the cassette did rewind. Shame BASIC doesn't have an OLD command. Oh well. Pleased I photographed it before The Deed.

When I posted this on Bluesky people asked what the "/38" in the name meant and it turns out that nobody really knows. Earlier models had a plastic strip here where you could slide in pieces of paper with notes on but that's missing from this machine. It looks unused though doesn't it!