30 May
2008
30 May
'08
7:40 a.m.
This is actually a replica of the original WOPR that was commissioned for
an AT&T commercial a couple years back.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220237845125
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30 May
30 May
9:57 a.m.
ECL memory I assume? Needs an IMSAI to go with it, though...
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Sellam Ismail <sellam at vintagetech.com>
wrote:
This is actually a replica of the original WOPR that was commissioned for
an AT&T commercial a couple years back.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220237845125
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10:04 a.m.
Actually there is a company that makes new IMSAI chassis that will accept
both an S100 mother board and a PC ATX board (the console talks to it via
USB).
http://www.imsai.net/
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Jason McBrien <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
ECL memory I assume? Needs an IMSAI to go with it,
though...
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Sellam Ismail <sellam at vintagetech.com>
wrote:
This is actually a replica of the original WOPR that was commissioned for
an AT&T commercial a couple years back.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220237845125
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11:28 a.m.
Actually there is a company that makes new IMSAI
chassis that will accept
both an S100 mother board and a PC ATX board (the console talks to it via
USB).
http://www.imsai.net/
Good luck trying to buy one.
10:18 a.m.
> This is actually a replica of the original WOPR
that was commissioned for
> an AT&T commercial a couple years back.
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220237845125
ECL memory I assume? Needs an IMSAI to go with it,
though...
Plays great games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe, global thermonuclear war ...
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10:24 a.m.
> This is
actually a replica of the original WOPR that was commissioned for
> an AT&T commercial a couple years back.
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220237845125
ECL memory I assume? Needs an IMSAI to go with
it, though...
Plays great games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe, global thermonuclear war ...
11:04 a.m.
> Plays great games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe,
global thermonuclear war ...
The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the
display. This one doesn't appear
to have that. :)
You know, I always suspected that due to the font on the display but I never
found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source for that? Someone
else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal paucity of evidence.
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11:13 a.m.
The
"original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the display. This one doesn't appear
to have that. :)
You know, I always suspected that due to the font on the display but I never
found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source for that? Someone
else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal paucity of evidence.
11:16 a.m.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
wrote:
The Apple II was used to drive the fake IMSAI display.
The
"original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the display. This one doesn't
appear
to have that. :)
You know, I always suspected that due to the font on the display but I
never
found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source for that? Someone
else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal paucity of evidence. 
11:18 a.m.
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
According to this page:
http://www.imsai.net/movies/wargames.htm
...the display was driven by an Apple II with a modified display driver
card.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
The
"original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the display. This one doesn't appear
to have that. :)
You know, I always suspected that due to the font on the display but I never
found anything that confirmed it. Did you find a source for that? Someone
else claimed it was an Apple II but had an equal paucity of evidence. 
2:13 p.m.
Bob Armstrong wrote:
1500? Hmm, maybe there's a market for selling reproductions of non-working
computers that have been previously used in movies...
Although "All systems are fully operational" has me curious ;)
J.
Plays great
games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe, global thermonuclear war ...
Cheap, too - only $1,500 on eBay... That's less than a PDP-8 :-) 
5:34 p.m.
Don't forget with a cheesy add-on ( Votrax ? ) it even talks !!
Best regards, Steven
Bob Armstrong wrote:
>> Plays great games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe, global thermonuclear war
...
Cheap, too - only $1,500 on eBay... That's less than a PDP-8 :-)
1500? Hmm, maybe there's a market for selling reproductions of non-working
computers that have been previously used in movies...
Although "All systems are fully operational" has me curious ;)
J. 
31 May
31 May
7:49 a.m.
New subject: Wang the Perverted
My name is Bob and this is my first post.
What caused me to join this discussion group was a wang computer that
came into my possession that had two 5 1/4 diskette drives, one
internal and the other external.
It seemed to require its own peculiar start up disk and I suspect it
would have to be a formatted 160 or 180 kbit job.
Finding out information on this thing only seemed to lead to dead ends.
I cannot get greater specifics as I stored the thing in an inconvenient
place when I took it off the workbench.
respectfully
bob schwier
10:57 a.m.
New subject: Wang the Perverted
schwepes at moog.netaxs.com wrote:
My name is Bob and this is my first post.
What caused me to join this discussion group was a wang computer that
came into my possession that had two 5 1/4 diskette drives, one
internal and the other external.
It seemed to require its own peculiar start up disk and I suspect it
would have to be a formatted 160 or 180 kbit job.
Finding out information on this thing only seemed to lead to dead ends.
I cannot get greater specifics as I stored the thing in an inconvenient
place when I took it off the workbench.
respectfully
bob schwier
Bob,
Wang made many different computers of the course of three decades. Can
you say which one you are talking about? Or some information that might
help narrow it down?
11:17 a.m.
New subject: Wang the Perverted
On Saturday 31 May 2008 10:57, Jim Battle wrote:
schwepes at moog.netaxs.com wrote:
Those disk formats sound like their "PC" with single-sided drives, 8 or 9
sectors / track offhand...
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My name is Bob and this is my first post.
What caused me to join this discussion group was a wang computer that
came into my possession that had two 5 1/4 diskette drives, one
internal and the other external.
It seemed to require its own peculiar start up disk and I suspect it
would have to be a formatted 160 or 180 kbit job.
Finding out information on this thing only seemed to lead to dead ends.
I cannot get greater specifics as I stored the thing in an inconvenient
place when I took it off the workbench.
respectfully
bob schwier
Bob,
Wang made many different computers of the course of three decades. Can
you say which one you are talking about? Or some information that might
help narrow it down? 
1 Jun
1 Jun
6:21 p.m.
At 10:13 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
1500? Hmm, maybe there's a market for selling reproductions of
non-working computers that have been previously used in movies...
Although "All systems are fully operational" has me curious ;)
I can't imagine making a WOPR for $1500...
Plays
great games though. Chess, tic-tac-toe, global thermonuclear war ...
Cheap, too -
only $1,500 on eBay... That's less than a PDP-8 :-) 
9:18 p.m.
At 02:29 PM 6/1/2008, you wrote:
The WOPR itself wouldn't cost too much, but that big monitor?
. . . and how about those remote peripherals?
The USB missile launcher needs to be beefed up a lot.
You might be able to build it under $1500, but I was responding more
to the comment about there being a market for items like this. When
I started with the Altair kit I thought it would have a sale price of $499.
I couldn't even sell an empty case for that. : ) All of those 703
(hand counted and packed per kit! : ( ) individual parts in the
Altair 8800 are cheap...alone. : )
Although "All systems are fully operational"
has me curious ;)
I can't imagine making a WOPR for $1500...
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