Wang 300 Calc

[jim]

Jason T wrote:

>On 9/4/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
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>>Well they still may be a good but slow calculator!
>>At the original price they where built to last and are doing
>>so still.
>>Ben alias woodelf.
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>But aren't they simply front-end units to a central processor? I
>didn't think the 300 could do anything on it's own..
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there is a tabletop box with nixies and keys and switches.  There is a 
box, not a mainframe
that was about the size of a desktop in the case of the ones at UMR that 
several heads
were connected to.  I believe that they had payed in the tens of 
thousands for a unit with
5 or so heads and a card reader for entering programs, in 1970 dollars.

I have seen both the head and the processor and a working unit on ebay, 
but not very
often.

I have one of the card reader units, but nothing else.

Jim