Wang Thang

I finally went back to check on that "Wang PC-002" I asked about earlier. It was a bit more scratched up, but it hadn't moved an inch in the past two and a half(?) weeks. I managed to locate its keyboard, as well as the keyboard for an aparently keyboardless Tandy 1000TX that was in another part of the building, so I decided to drag the Wang machine home. NOT an easy job. It was about a mile to the nearest subway station, with lots of broken escalators up and down once I got into the system. And I was carrying a large book bag full of stuff I have to look over for work. By the time the bus dropped me off near home, we were in the middle of a thunder storm. So I left the computer on top of someone's gate post (wide brick thing with flat cement top) under some trees near the bus stop, and made a run for home (about a half-mile). I went back with the car as soon as I got home. Anyway, it sure is a curious beast. And HUGE, to my eyes. It's not quite as big as I reported before, but it's BIG. The closest offhand and possibly innacurate comparison I could make is to a friend's MicroVax, but I don't know what kind of MicroVax that is. If I sit it vertically (a position the box looks very comfortable in), it measures about 15" high, by 6.5" wide, by 23" long. It has two floppy drives mounted in the front: one half-height 5.25" drive, and one full-hieght 5.25" drive. In the back, I can see the backs of various cards. One of them has the connector for the keyboard (4-pin DIN) as well as one serial and one parallel port, so it must be the motherboard. Beside that (or above, depending on orientation) is a board with a sticker reading "PM032-B 512K Memory Expansion". Next to that, is what appears to be an empty slot, and then there is what appears to be some kind of networking card. It has two coaxial cable connectors and a toggle switch. There is another card beside (or above) that, with no ports or labels, but I can see chips through the air holes. Beside (or above) the mystery card is a board with a label reading "PM101 IBM Mono Emulation". It has an 8-pin DIN connector and a 5-pin DIN connector, which I would guess are for monitor and PC keyboard(?). Does anyone know the pinouts of the various ports, or anything else about this machine? Will it read PC disks or do I need to boot it up with some wacky Wang-format disk? Does the machine require some kind of terminal, or will a monitor connect into the back of the IBM Emulation board and let me see what's going on? The sticker on the side (top) of the machine says it's a PC-002, but the sticker on the back says it's a PC-P002. The keyboard has a lot of word processing functions on it. Anyway, I haven't opened it up yet, or done anything with it but look at it. Disassembly looks like it might be difficult, because I have to slip the innards through the full length metal sleeve. I won't be up to that until my arms recover. I've even got bruises and some kind of blood blisters or something, from carrying that thing. :/ I probably won't have time to play with it today as I promised to install NetBSD 1.3.2 and some UNIX software on my Amiga 3000 instead of coming to work. (And look at the time. :) ) Doug Spence ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/