The Philips NMS 8280 was an MSX2 computer sold by the Dutch company Philips and launched in 1987. NMS stands for New Media System, and the machine was aimed at video work rather than ordinary home use: it had an integrated genlock, so an outside video source could be connected, digitized and mixed with the computer image to add titles and effects, and its case was shaped to fit a video rack. The hardware was designed by Sanyo and descends from the Sanyo MPC-27. Inside is a Zilog Z80A processor running at 3.58 MHz, with 128 KB of main memory and 128 KB of video memory, a Yamaha V9938 video chip and an S3527 sound chip, two 720 KB 3.5-inch floppy drives, two cartridge slots and a mouse. It shipped with MSX-DOS 1 and several application and graphics disks. Four keyboard variants were built for the Dutch, Belgian, German, Spanish and French markets, and the machine was also sold in Italy as the Phonola NMS 8280.
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The Philips NMS 8280 was a MSX2 computer from the Dutch company Philips, launched in 1987.
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The computer was equipped with a Zilog Z80A microprocessor with a clock frequency of 3.58 MHz.
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