30 Sep
2006
30 Sep
'06
10:09 a.m.
On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:59 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.
Many years ago (think "the 80386 had just hit the streets") I had a
job as a service tech working on Wang machines that meet that
description. If you can take a pic or two I'd love to see it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL