[9] The P2000T was a Z80-based home computer that used a Mullard SAA5050 teletext display chip to produce the video picture and a small Mini-Cassette recorder for 42 kilobytes of mass storage capacity.

[1][5][10][11] The Mini-Cassette was treated as a floppy drive from the user's perspective, using the automatic search for a program (CLOAD command) or free space (CSAVE).

[1] Philips used components they already produced for other markets (television sets and dictation machines) to quickly design a small computer system.

[12] Although the teletext video chip permitted a quick entry into the home computer market, it was a major weakness of the P2000T.

It was incompatible with the P2000T due to the way it handled display of special characters (color, "graphics mode"), which made most P2000T games unplayable.