9 Jul
1998
9 Jul
'98
10:02 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 blindpete(a)stratos.net wrote:
Hi
Yes a reality, and a nic name I got from some friends.
Then congrats on the Wang repair! Loss of eyesight is probably my
greatest fear.
I used it mostly to write messages on from calls
ect, I would leave it on
all day, and get some help later on some one would read it back to me so I
could braille it out.
What did you do when there was a power failure? :)
The drive was ten MB and had Wang dos on it and the
word prosser was also
on it.
The monotor was a Wang monotor, I don't know if they are still available.
Unlikely. Which is one reason I'm so peeved at the Salvation Army store
for tossing all of those old monitors and terminals.
This Wang I had was baught at a flee market, a
fellow had 20 or 30 of them
he was selling complete for $25 about ten years ago.
Sounds like a good deal!
A friend saw it and snagged one for me he knew I
was interested in
computers, and thought it would make a interesting birthday present for me.
I sold it eventually because I couldn't het a sinthasiser that would work
in the card slots, they worent ISA or any thing like that, not sure what
they wore.
Some proprietary Wang bus, I presume. It's got 86 pins, at 0.125"
spacing.
Pete
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