29 Sep
2006
29 Sep
'06
8:30 p.m.
On Friday 29 September 2006 09:59 pm, Jay West wrote:
Surplus dealer saved an odd looking box for me.
It's a WANG, slightly
larger than a typical PC with monitor and keyboard. Comes with a case of
floppy disks, most of which are original WANG labels. I couldn't make out
much from them other than some of it was some productivity type software.
The front dimensions were square (Width = Height) and the depth was
unusually deep (maybe 2.5 to 3 feet). In the front was a power switch, 5.25
floppy drive, and visibly the front of some small hard drive (looked like
the old IBM PC drives).
The thing that piqued my interest is that it supposedly had 10 terminals
hanging off the back of it before it was brought in. I'm going back
tomorrow to pull it out and get more info about it.
I worked for a while for a dealer that handled such stuff. If you open up the
box and find a big L-shaped CPU board then they're the same critters. I
believe I saw a metal tray intended to mount a drive in one of those boxes
around here someplace just in the past day or two. I may also, somewhere,
have some diagnostics for those machines. Maybe.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin