Wang 2200 web site and emulator announcement

Hello one and all. For the past three or four years, I've actively been looking for a first generation Wang 2200 computer. I actually have two now, mostly working. Over the past couple of months I acquired/developed all the technical information I needed to write an emulator. The emulator is far from complete, but it is quite usable. Besides the emulator, I've overhauled my Wang web site and added a lot more content. Now that the ball is rolling, I hope to maintain it more actively. The web site: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/wang.html The emulator: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/emu.html The emulator runs on win32 platforms right now, but I wrote it using a GUI/system abstraction toolkit, wxWindows, so it should be pretty portable to unix/linux/mac at least. If you have no nostalgia for the 2200, why is it interesting anyway? The first generation came out in 1973. Because it was designed before microprocessors were available, it is a microcoded TTL box. In many ways, it can be compared pretty fairly to home computers that came five years later. Because it predates Microsoft, it has a rich and quirky BASIC dialect. Unfortunately, I don't have any Wang BASIC documents online yet, but I do have a quick comparison of Wang BASIC vs early Microsoft BASIC. ----- Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net