10 Feb
2008
10 Feb
'08
9:41 a.m.
I've been grinding through the stack of early 80's Wang VS docs
William Donzelli loaned me, and was wondering how many people have
these systems in their collections, and if there was any later docs
or software out there.
Seemed like a fairly decent system midrange system.
10 Feb
10 Feb
9:57 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
I've been grinding through the stack of early
80's Wang VS docs
William Donzelli loaned me, and was wondering how many people have
these systems in their collections, and if there was any later docs
or software out there.
I have one sitting in storage, still shrink wrapped and on pallets.
I'll poke around and see what docs I have for it.
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10:04 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
I've been grinding through the stack of early
80's Wang VS docs
William Donzelli loaned me, and was wondering how many people have
these systems in their collections, and if there was any later docs
or software out there.
Seemed like a fairly decent system midrange system.
Believe it or not, the Wang VS still lives on. Thomas Junker, who for a
long time was one of the last real champions of the Wang VS, has
actually revived the Wang VS family. Getronics bought out Wang and then
essentially milked the dwindling user base without introducing new products.
Thomas took the initiative, hired a programmer, and wrote a Linux-based
emulator for the VS family. Enough time had passed the a fast PC with
his emulation software is still much faster than the old high end
machines. He worked with Getronics to make it legal and they are now in
some kind of cooperative arrangement.
Thomas Junker's page:
http://www.tjunker.com/
TransVirtual Systems page:
http://www.transvirtualsystems.com/
1:26 p.m.
Al,
I have the VS system that I believe was matched to the docs you have from Will. He dropped
it off here last summer but I have not yet started to work on the system.
-Dave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:41:21
To:classiccmp at classiccmp.org
Subject: Wang VS systems around?
I've been grinding through the stack of early 80's Wang VS docs
William Donzelli loaned me, and was wondering how many people have
these systems in their collections, and if there was any later docs
or software out there.
Seemed like a fairly decent system midrange system.
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