26 Dec
1998
26 Dec
'98
2:22 p.m.
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/25/98 5:02:56 PM Pacific
Standard Time,
roblwill(a)usaor.net writes:
If they did it like everything else that they made, they did it 'their way'!
- don
I'd say that it's fairly intelligent.
In the manual, it says that a 360k
5.25", 720k 3.5", and 1.2MB 5.25" drive were available. It claims that
any
one or all the drives could be connected. It says nothing about a 1.44MB
3.5", though (were 1.44MB drives around in 1986?). It supposedly can
The Wang laptop (transportable) was a huge black machine that connected
several peripherals via it's 50 pin Centronics interface connector terminated
at the end of the chain. I have never seen a 3 1/2" floppy for it so I am not
surprised that it had only a 720 available. I don't think they made a 1.44. I
had a MO drive for them once and I know there was a CD also. You could chain
more than one hard drive too. Wang had pretty good firmware, so I am not too
surprised that they are plug and play. I have no idea how well Wang complied
with the SCSI standards.
Paxton