31 May
2003
31 May
'03
9:13 p.m.
In addition to the to the old Wang PC in the archiver case, I think there
were PC-250's, PC-280's and PC-350's. There was also the Wang Executive
which was a 386, I think, and the Alliance series, which may have been
486's. There were also the PCS-II's which were absolutely and completely
non MS-DOS copmpatible. They ran Wang Basic.
On Sat, 31 May 2003, David Comley wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
Was the Wang
PC clone that you had also called a
Wang Professional? If so
then I probably do just have PC versions of DOS 3.2
and Win 1.03.
I *think* that the Wang Professional designation
appeared on all the desktop machines, both PC and
non-PC variants, and it also appeared on most of the
5.25" media that I had for both machines. I also think
that the unit I had was a '280'. There was also a
'350' which had a smaller footprint and probably a 386
processor.
I thought I might have got lucky, as both the
box
and the disks are marked
"Wang Professional Computer Series".
I wish I could help you with software but stupidly I
ditched all my 5.25" media when I left the UK about 10
years ago. At one time I had Lotus 1-2-3, and dbase,
along with the Wang IWP package, and I had various
games including Pacman that had been ported over. But
you may still get lucky.
We used Wang equipment in conjunction with VS80s (and
later VS models) for e-mail internally as well as disk
and print serving. Did you also get the VS networking
card ?
Dave