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Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
« on: Mon, 11 July 2016, 04:53:25 »
VINTAGE WANG WORD PROCESSOR MONITOR KEYBOARD RARE*Make an Offer

Quite a beauty!





Seems hardly used, if at all:





There's not a lot of info about these, but I found an engineer's page about them here on Internet Archive, 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.
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Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 11 July 2016, 08:58:44 »
love me a good wang
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Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 11 July 2016, 10:39:30 »
Especially big ones like this. Give you a lot to work with.
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Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 13 July 2016, 09:38:11 »
It's hard to beat a Wang.
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Re: Wang System 5 word processor, late '70s (meet George Jetson!)
« Reply #5 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".
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