Ok, I went there and took a picture, you can see it at
http://www.ezwind.net/jwest/whatsit/09300001.JPG
The "aspect ratio" in the picture is misleading. While the front of the cpu
isn't perfectly square, it is more square than the picture would lead you to
believe. In the 3rd party floppy boxes are loads of WANG label software, as
well as customer disks. In the brown box is about a 1.5 foot long stretch of
silver padded WANG binders/manuals, many with original software disks. I
noticed some stuff mentioning 2780/3780 communications software which
grabbed my attention. The monitor hooks up to the cpu with an odd "dual din
cable". Two din connectors on each end, one has about 9 pins the other has
about 5 pins. The monitor obviously gets both power and data on this dual
cable.
The CPU appears to be something called a "Wang Professional Computer" from
what I can glean from the docs. The model tag on the back is extremely faded
black print on silver so it's just a shadow. It seems to say the model is
something vaguely like PM-XC1. There is an IBM mono "module" which has a
part number something like PM101 and a "winchester controller module" which
has a part number like PM029.
From just a 30 second skim of some of the manuals it
appears to be running a
very customized version of DOS. The proprietary changes to
the OS appear to
be more than just cosmetic.
The price was reasonable so I picked it up. The seller said it came from a
WANG dealer - since there's a lot of what appear to be diagnostics & test
diskettes, I would imagine that's the case. I will play with it for a bit,
but may well be interested in trading it off. I did note that the seller had
more of the proprietary CRT's and dual din cables if those are of interest.
Jay West