14 Aug
2007
14 Aug
'07
2:20 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
I have a medium sized Wang system available for free,
snagged with a
bunch of Data General equipment I was saving for a fellow list member.
Neither of us are Wang fans.
This is a Wang VS45, with a console terminal, printer, a comms box,
and a Wang/CDC 80M 14" drive.
My interest runs only to the 2200 families of Wang equipment, not the VS
and not the OIS equipment, and especially not their PCs.
There is something I find interesting about the VS family. My
understanding is that the VS is a clone of the IBM 360 instruction set,
but all the software was written by Wang with no intent of copying the
IBM OS's. I'm sure over time the instruction sets diverged, but it is
kind of neat to think there is a 360 in there.