On 1998-06-27 classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu said:
cl{On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
cl{> Cannot help on the pinouts, but I think their monitor connector
cl{>was unique. You need to boot it with Wang disks. They are in PC
cl{>format, but the DOS is different. I have a set that I can copy
cl{>when you get video going.
cl{Great! I'll get various Kaypro stuff from you at the same time. ;)
cl{Do you know what the monitor connector looks like? The only
cl{possibilities are the DIN plugs on the back of the IBM Emulator
cl{card. Unless the monitor was some kind of terminal that attached
cl{to the serial port.
cl{The 8-pin DIN plug has a little symbol next to it which might
cl{represent a CRT. (It looks kind of like a pie slice.)
cl{> As I recall, the IBM Emulator board really hacks the WangDOS to
cl{>be more like PCDOS and it will then run many - but not all -
cl{PCDOS programs.
cl{Pretty big hack. A whole PC could fit on a card half that size. :)
cl{> Don't believe the D-subs on the back are for monitor and keyboard,
cl{>but it may be a different board than I ever saw.
cl{Well, I don't know where else to put a monitor. The Wang keyboard
cl{plugs into the 4-pin DIN socket connected to the machine's
cl{motherboard, I can only guess what the other things are for. I'm
cl{just scratching my head trying to figure out how to get a picture
cl{from the thing.
cl{> > The sticker on the side (top) of the machine says it's a PC-002,
cl{>but the > sticker on the back says it's a PC-P002.
cl{> >
cl{> > The keyboard has a lot of word processing functions on it.
cl{> That is what Wang really got established in.
cl{Too bad the keyboard doesn't have the greatest feel. And some of
cl{the keys are in the wrong places, but that's a holy war I don't
cl{want to get into. ;)
cl{> > Anyway, I haven't opened it up yet, or done anything with it
cl{>but look at > it. Disassembly looks like it might be difficult,
cl{>because I have to slip > the innards through the full length
cl{>metal sleeve. I won't be up to that > until my arms recover.
cl{>I've even got bruises and some kind of blood > blisters or
cl{something, from carrying that thing. :/ >
cl{> Stand it up on its face and lift the cover off. Everything
cl{>inside is in a heavy guage wire frame.
cl{Yeah, it took me a few minutes to figure it out, but it opened up
cl{easily once I decided to pull from the back instead of the front. :)
cl{> - don
cl{Doug Spence
cl{ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
cl{
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
Hi
I used to have an old wang whith a 8086 cpu in it, it had a monotor whith
two cords coming out of it.
one was power and the other one was for the data, they both pluged into
the card whith two plugs on it.
the one I had used the round ps2 stile plug maybe a little bigger, like a
keyboard plug.
Pete
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