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Title: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
Post by: ander on Mon, 11 July 2016, 04:53:25

VINTAGE WANG WORD PROCESSOR MONITOR KEYBOARD RARE*Make an Offer (http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-WANG-WORD-PROCESSOR-MONITOR-KEYBOARD-RARE-Make-an-Offer-/112031681405?hash=item1a159bcb7d:g:zaMAAOSwhOVXcn8k)

Quite a beauty!


(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zaMAAOSwhOVXcn8k/s-l1600.jpg)


Seems hardly used, if at all:


(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7BUAAOSwjXRXZY2n/s-l1600.jpg)


There's not a lot of info about these, but I found an engineer's page about them here on Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20110726141200/http://www.harolds928people.org/), including this ad:


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Get it—"standalone"? Looks like the whole office turned out for the photo.  :?)


The seller couldn't get it working, but maybe you could. (I'd be happy just having it sitting around.) He's asking $299 + shipping, but I think it's just a shot in the dark, as he seems pretty open to offers.

Title: Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
Post by: dante on Mon, 11 July 2016, 08:47:56

Wow!  When I was in High School I enrolled in an offsite vocational program for Data Processing.  The first year the class had around 20 of these terminals all networked to a Wang computer ... with 512(K)ilobytes of memory!  20 people! 512k! We were taught COBOL/RPG/JCL/etc... pretty amazing at the time.  This was around 1991.

Title: Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
Post by: kekman on Mon, 11 July 2016, 08:58:44

love me a good wang

Title: Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
Post by: chyros on Mon, 11 July 2016, 10:39:30

Especially big ones like this. Give you a lot to work with.

Title: Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
Post by: 1391406 on Wed, 13 July 2016, 09:38:11

It's hard to beat a Wang.

Title: Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
Post by: ander on Wed, 03 August 2016, 00:07:04

Quote from: dante on Mon, 11 July 2016, 08:47:56

Wow!  When I was in High School I enrolled in an offsite vocational program for Data Processing.  The first year the class had around 20 of these terminals all networked to a Wang computer ... with 512(K)ilobytes of memory!  20 people! 512k! ...

Well, Bill Gates did say that "640K is enough for anyone"... Maybe he meant "everyone".