Isn't it true that several years ago Wang came up with a new customer
programme called "Wang Care" and the guy that came up with the name was
fired?
Anyway, whilst helping my company clear out its electronics test shop I came
away with a few goodies, namely a couple of MicroVAX 2000s, a boxed IBM PS/2
laptop, a 100mhz Oscilloscope, a VR262 mono monitor, a VT220, a huge bundle
of VAX and PDP cards, complete (I think) boardset for an RL02 drive AND a
box containing some read/write heads, some MicroVAX 3100 memory (20mb! Woo),
floppy controller and motherboard for a PRO380 (with the possibility of the
machine itself coming too) and what I can only assume is a CPU testbed. It's
an Amtron 386 PC with an interface card and strange 4 pin power-out sockets
that connect to an array of long and heavy metal-encased boxes that have
umbilicals on with sockets or connectors to plug in the CPUs themselves.
I've got modules for 8086, 8088, 286, 386SX, 386DX, 486 and 68000
CPUs......haven't powered the machine up yet though.
Anyone come across one of these before?
As for that supposed prototype Apple 1 auction, the full size picture of it
is at
http://www.sfcapital.com/ebay/full.jpg..... it just seems odd to me
that it's in a case when the final product didn't have one.....
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum
Received on Wed Dec 13 2000 - 06:07:22 GMT
