NMS-8250

The Philips NMS 8250 was a professional MSX2 home computer aimed at the high end of the market and released in 1986. NMS stood for New Media Systems. It was built as a "pizza box" desktop unit with a floppy disk drive inside the case, a detachable keyboard and professional video output, including SCART for a cleaner picture. Although it carried the Philips name, the machine was manufactured by Sanyo and is essentially the Sanyo MPC-25FS in a different colour. Three regional models were produced: the NMS 8250/00 for the Dutch and Belgian markets with a QWERTY keyboard, the NMS 8250/16 for Spain with a QWERTY keyboard including the n with tilde key, and the NMS 8250/19 for France with an AZERTY keyboard. The related NMS 8255 is a similar machine with two disk drives instead of one. It is documented here as a built computing system of the MSX2 generation, the standard that made software and peripherals interchangeable between makers.