Wang 2200 in Portsmouth, England

[Jim Battle]

This is a message that I sent out during the classiccmp blackout in 
early july.  I didn't realize at the time that the message wasn't 
delivered.  Here it is again:

I received an email today from a gentleman in Portsmouth.  He said it 
was OK to share the message with the list.

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Hiya im due to pick up a wang 2200 from one of my relatives houses as my 
grandad has recently passed away and was wondering if you know anyone in 
the uk either portsmouth or liverpool that might be interested in it.

It is a Wang 2200 A which comes with a cassette drive built into the 
screen/keyboard, a separate CPU, a separate power supply and a separate 
I/O unit.

I have found some manuals. They are a Wang Basic Language Ref Manual, A 
Wang System 2200 STATS/Engineering General program library & a 
Matematics general program library. There are also 3 cassette albums 
each containing about 12 cassettes with various programs and one game. 
Whether these work or not is unknown.

As far as i know it was working before it was put in the loft 12 months ago.

Regards

malcolm

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I know he would like some money for it, but I'm not sure what his 
expectations are.  I don't think he knows either.  :-)   It would be 
hard to set a price on it as these systems appear on ebay rarely, and 
also he doesn't know whether it is functional.

If you are interested, email me and I'll forward his contact information 
to you (frustum at pacbell.net).  I don't want to post his email address 
for fear of email address bots might pick it up.  I don't care if they 
get mine though.  I'll also send along a couple small photos of the system.

The 2200 came out in the early 70s and was Wang's first successful 
general purpose computer.  The BASIC interpreter was written in 
microcode, and systems had from 4KB to 32KB of RAM.  You can visit my 
site, www.wang2200.org, to get more information about this family of 
computers.

Malcolm said that this is a Wang 2200A, which would make it very early, 
but many of these machines had board upgrades, turning them into later 
model machines.