[rescue] Re: Wang Machines

[Michael Thompson]

They guys at the Rhode Island Computer Museum are the only ones that I know
of that collect and know anything about Wang equipment.
http://www.osfn.org/ricm

>From: Rick Hamell <hamellr at heorot.1nova.com>
>
>	I've got an old Wang machine sitting at home. In the furniture
>vein, it's done duty as a coffee/end table. :) 
>
>	Does any one have a good site for identifying this thing? I had
>hopes of hacking the case and filling it with a bunch of PC boards or
>Older sparc machines and making it into a Beowulf cluster. I'd hate to
>ruin something like this though. 
>
>	The machine has no part numbers that I can find. There are no
>labels on the outside other then the word "Wang." It has a 5 1/4 inch 360k
>floppy drive, a full size hard drive with again, no labels on it! There
>are 5 system boards, each is about 4 ft sqaure and slips into it's own
>rail. Examining the boards I believe that two are processors and the other
>three are memory boards based off of chip numbers. :)
>
>	Externally there are about a dozen BNC connections that are
>numbered. I assume those are the terminal connections? (I think it may be
>labeled that way.) The machine sounds like it boots up, and the hard drive
>moves for several minutes then quiets down. Thanks in advance for any
>pointers!
>
>	Rick


Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson at IDS.net