WB6BLV wrote:
Looking for a WANG 2200 MVT system or
anything that will read Wang 5 meg removable platters;
8 inch floppy drive also needed; have many of the
Wang terminals but a spare mpu might be nice.
Thanks
John
WB6BLV at
inreach.com
John,
I happen to be working on some software to decode the data off of 8"
SSSD hard sectored disks using a catweasel card. I have a pile of such
disks I want to archive and I no longer have a way to read them natively
(I left my 2200 WCS/30 system with
www.digibarn.com when I moved --
single 8" 2270 and a 2260 disk pack system).
If you are anywhere near santa cruz, maybe you can work a deal out with
Bruce Damer (digibarn proprietor) to read your stuff.
If your 8" disks are the format I'm building the reader for, I'd be
happy to capture yours once I've processed my pile.
While my 2200 emulator currently doesn't run the MVP OS (because I don't
emulate the terminal mux board or terminals yet), you can run various
versions of the VP OS, or even the first generation 2200T Wang BASIC.
http://www.wang2200.org