27 Feb
2001
27 Feb
'01
10:26 p.m.
Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system for anything these days? I
ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
Thanks, Craig
28 Feb
28 Feb
6:22 p.m.
At 07:26 AM 2/28/01 -0500, ip500/craig wrote:
Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system
for anything these
days? I
ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
Thanks, Craig
I haven't used a VS system myself, but if you want to get a flavor of what
it is
like, try running this Wang VS emulator:
http://home.planet.nl/~ernest/vs.html
It isn't a simple binary emulator; instead, the author is recreating the system
at the OS call level. The author has a 45 minute each way train commute, so
he has spent the last 8 years or something working on it in bits and pieces.
What a slog!
Anyway, it's something to get you going.
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
1 Mar
1 Mar
1:06 a.m.
Craig,
Fisrt, I don't know anything about any of the Wangs. Second, does the
VS-100 have disk drives? If so, what size? I just bought a box of new
blank hard sectored 8" floppy disk made by Wang and I was wondering what
kind of system used them.
Joe
At 07:26 AM 2/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system for
anything these days? I
ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
Thanks, Craig
1:08 a.m.
Hi Joe,
Join the club ... No one seems to know much about them. Other than the
fact that they're big! As I recall there were 3 or 4 big floor model
hard drives, at least one dual 8" table unit and a big 9 track tape deck
too. The CPU was about two rack widths X 4' high or so and Heavy! It's
still sitting in the guys storage building I guess.
Craig
Joe wrote:
Craig,
Fisrt, I don't know anything about any of the Wangs. Second, does the
VS-100 have disk drives? If so, what size? I just bought a box of new
blank hard sectored 8" floppy disk made by Wang and I was wondering what
kind of system used them.
Joe
At 07:26 AM 2/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
> Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system for anything these days? I
>ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
>reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
>is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
> Thanks, Craig
>
1:27 a.m.
Tommy Junker can probably help you out with the VS100 on the VSlist. I
think they require a special boot console, or that may be the VS300.
We're hoping to get one of these eventually.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, ip500 wrote:
Hi Joe,
Join the club ... No one seems to know much about them. Other than the
fact that they're big! As I recall there were 3 or 4 big floor model
hard drives, at least one dual 8" table unit and a big 9 track tape deck
too. The CPU was about two rack widths X 4' high or so and Heavy! It's
still sitting in the guys storage building I guess.
Craig
Joe wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
Craig,
Fisrt, I don't know anything about any of the Wangs. Second, does the
VS-100 have disk drives? If so, what size? I just bought a box of new
blank hard sectored 8" floppy disk made by Wang and I was wondering what
kind of system used them.
Joe
At 07:26 AM 2/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
> Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system for anything these days? I
>ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
>reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
>is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
> Thanks, Craig
>
1:44 a.m.
I'll add a little something. Since this topic is so open.
I took apart a VS90 a couple of years ago. It was passive
backplane, extremely wide (capacity 30 cards?) separate
data and control busses, multiprocessing '086 architecture.
Neat hidden blinkenlight conbtriool panel.
Will, didn't you get one of those CPU cards, couldit've
been 8086?
John A.
disclaimer: one or more errors possible above (I have a cold)
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