DOS/Windows for Wang Professional Computer (not a PC clone)?

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Sat May 31 21:13:00 2003

In addition to the to the old Wang PC in the archiver case, I think there
were PC-250's, PC-280's and PC-350's. There was also the Wang Executive
which was a 386, I think, and the Alliance series, which may have been
486's. There were also the PCS-II's which were absolutely and completely
non MS-DOS copmpatible. They ran Wang Basic.

On Sat, 31 May 2003, David Comley wrote:

> > Was the Wang PC clone that you had also called a
> > Wang Professional? If so
> > then I probably do just have PC versions of DOS 3.2
> > and Win 1.03.
>
> I *think* that the Wang Professional designation
> appeared on all the desktop machines, both PC and
> non-PC variants, and it also appeared on most of the
> 5.25" media that I had for both machines. I also think
> that the unit I had was a '280'. There was also a
> '350' which had a smaller footprint and probably a 386
> processor.
>
>
> > I thought I might have got lucky, as both the box
> > and the disks are marked
> > "Wang Professional Computer Series".
>
> I wish I could help you with software but stupidly I
> ditched all my 5.25" media when I left the UK about 10
> years ago. At one time I had Lotus 1-2-3, and dbase,
> along with the Wang IWP package, and I had various
> games including Pacman that had been ported over. But
> you may still get lucky.
>
> We used Wang equipment in conjunction with VS80s (and
> later VS models) for e-mail internally as well as disk
> and print serving. Did you also get the VS networking
> card ?
>
> Dave
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

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