What do you do with 256k Wang

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Apr 1 11:45:48 1999

It would help if you would TURN OFF HTML!!

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Fred & Lenny wrote:
> Okay, I own a computer so of course to everyone who doesn't I'm =
> some
> kind of expert (not).
>
> So the other day this guy brings me this 256k Wang, wants me to =
> set
> it up for him. Set up to do what? Alright maybe I may have some old DOS
> stuff a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, hell maybe I even got a pong game =
> still
> laying around. My problem is how do I write to this thing?

By putting what you want to install onto diskettes.

> Its got one of those old floppy drives with the lever and all (never
> used them I was running a Mac before IBM saw the light).

It would help if you identified the drive a little more narrowly than
that it has a lever. The OLD drives usually didn't have a lever. A LOT
happened before the Mac.

> The hard drive =
> is
> from the stone age (is this SCSI compatible?)

It would help if you identified the drive a little more narrowly than
that it is older than you are accustomed to.

> And the mother of all =
> boards
> with connections for a network possibly? Probably a mainframe Yuk. =

It would help if you identified the connectors in more detail.

> Anybody
> ever own one of these things?
Of course.
> Can anything be salvaged?
If you are willing to put some work into it.

> Is this just an
> overgrown typewriter? How am I going to write to this thing without
> destroying my computer?
What kind of damage are you anticipating to your computer?

> Help Help Help...
We'd be glad to. But you need to try to provide basic information.

> Here's some numbers: cpu 256kb,
It would help if you opened it and identified what kind of CPU it has.

> two PMO30-b 128k Memory expansion, PMO08 =
> c.g.I (monitor controller?), pm02/022-b Winchester controller,
> Seagate HD,
Seagate is a brand. If you'd like to know whether it is SCSI, etc., it
would help to know WHICH model Seagate drive it is.

> and of course the standard Wang kb and monitor (RGB I think they =
> called them you know green just green). Everything works even has some =
> old data base software still on it.
Good. WHAT OS is it running?

> FrednLenny_at_compuage.com
Received on Thu Apr 01 1999 - 11:45:48 BST