Wang VS-100 system

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Mar 1 09:27:14 2001

Tommy Junker can probably help you out with the VS100 on the VSlist. I
think they require a special boot console, or that may be the VS300.
We're hoping to get one of these eventually.

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, ip500 wrote:

> Hi Joe,
> Join the club ... No one seems to know much about them. Other than the
> fact that they're big! As I recall there were 3 or 4 big floor model
> hard drives, at least one dual 8" table unit and a big 9 track tape deck
> too. The CPU was about two rack widths X 4' high or so and Heavy! It's
> still sitting in the guys storage building I guess.
> Craig
>
> Joe wrote:
> >
> > Craig,
> >
> > Fisrt, I don't know anything about any of the Wangs. Second, does the
> > VS-100 have disk drives? If so, what size? I just bought a box of new
> > blank hard sectored 8" floppy disk made by Wang and I was wondering what
> > kind of system used them.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > At 07:26 AM 2/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system for anything these days? I
> > >ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's
> > >reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang
> > >is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use?
> > > Thanks, Craig
> > >
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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