WANG micro? found
Josh Dersch
derschjo at msu.edu
Mon Oct 2 23:01:39 CDT 2006
>
> Lucky find - I have been looking for one of these
> forever.
>
I don't know where you're currently located (you mention Europe in your
mail) but just in case, there appears to be a similar one on eBay right
now, located in California:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Wang-Computer-w-5-1-4-Flopy-Drive_W0QQitemZ190032522943QQihZ009QQcategoryZ1247QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem.
Josh
David Comley wrote:
> These were great machines for their time and were the
> standard desktop machine at Ford Motor Company in
> Europe in the early to mid-80's. We had them networked
> to Wang VS's for e-mail, file and print serving but
> the most common app in use at that time would have
> been Wang Word Processing. IIRC Wang made an emulation
> board that made this look like a normal PC clone. Once
> Wang started delivering 286's and 386's these became
> known as Wang Classics to distinguish them from their
> more mainstream PC clone siblings.
>
> Lucky find - I have been looking for one of these
> forever.
>
> -Dave
>
> --- Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
>> I took more pictures of the unit after removing the
>> chassis. They can be
>> found at:
>>
>> http://www.ezwind.net/jwest/wang
>>
>>
>
>
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