Something to note about the old Wang tower: The building forms the letter W when seen from the sky. This was [I guess] to impress visitors flying in via the helipad on the roof.
I'm somewhat of a local and spent some time at Eastman Kodak which was previously a software division at Wang before Kodak purchased it and Wang completely dissolved into other entities. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Peter van Houten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well Ray [and all of us old "Wangers"], don't know if you ever went to > the towers but it is quite sad to see it now: > > http://alum.wpi.edu/~tfraser/Stories/Wang/index.html > > This bloke's site is quite interesting and has lots of old hardware for > those that are interested. > > On the 09/04/2008 17:52, RAY ZORZ wrote the following: > > > > > I consider myself lucky that I didn't have to deal much with PC's. I > > started on mini's, including a kind of home grown Ti/990 based system, > then moved to Wang systems, then moved to another proprietary > > IVR system. I barely utilized DOS machines. I did buy a 286 around the > time the 386's came out. I can't remember what version of > > DOS it had. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Tom Strader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/9/2008 8:15 AM >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My Dad had the "Commode 64" (as he used to call it), that was when I > > was ohhh, 10 years old. I started on DOS 2.0. I miss DOS 5.0, it WAS > > revolutionary. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Nikki Peterson - OETX > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 > 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: for old timers > > > > > > Commodore-64, ran home, hooked it up to my tv. :) later I bought a 1721 > tape drive. Very cool! I killed Grues that lived in dark places... > > > > My first HD I don't remember the make, but, that's where I learned all > about Directories, and why they are nice to have. (I installed everything on > the c:/). > > > > My first Windows program 1.0 at work, it had the coolest thing called > > Program Manager where it showed you just the exe files that you could > select and launch from (No menu had to be configured). > > > > Dos 5.0 REVOLUTIONARY!!!! > > > > Gosh, that was a while ago. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Ames Matthew B > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:34 AM To: NT > System Admin Issues Subject: RE: for old timers > > > > > > I still have at home an Osborne OS/1. The keyboard for that was actually > the top of the case (handle bit) which unclipped. Dual 5 1/4imch floppy > drives and about a 4 inch monocrome CRT. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Kim Longenbaugh > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 April 2008 15:29 To: NT System > Admin Issues Subject: RE: for old timers > > > > > > Back in my day, the "laptops" were the size of a suitcase and called > "luggables". Compaq's luggable had a small monochrome crt, about 4 or 5 > inches. > > > > As far as a command prompt is concerned, coming from a Novell environment, > I always felt like you had to actually know what your were doing because of > the CLI, as opposed to poking around with the mouse until you got lucky and > found what you needed > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Reimer, Mark > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:10 > > > > AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: for old timers > > > > > > > > I still have a Toshiba T1000 Laptop, and it still works. It has one floppy > (720K), no HD and 512K RAM (IIRC), and Dos 2.11 on ROM (with BASIC of some > variety). On another note, I'm still using a 300 Baud modem (actually a 2400 > Baud modem downgraded to 300 Baud) to connect > > to a fairly old PBX phone system to download logs. > > > > But those were the days. We actually got quite a bit done on those old > machines, and I still prefer a command prompt over Windows Explorer for many > file functions. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list like this. > Showing my age... > > > > Mark > > > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:45 AM To: NT > System Admin Issues Subject: RE: for old timers > > > > > > On 8 Apr 2008 at 23:52, Benjamin Zachary wrote: > > > > > > > You know I was right on that page and flipped through it real quick > > > and went on to look up the original ibm pc and a bunch of other > > > > > things. > > > > FWIW I still have an IBM XT on the shelf, monochrome monitor, IBM > keyboard, and all. One of these days I'll have to see if it still boots > --before I put it up for sale on eBay ;-) > > > > My first personally-owned PC was a Zenith Z-152, 4.77 MHz, 320k of RAM and > dual 360k floppies (320k/360k ? memory fades with time). It > > cost me over $3,000, with Microsoft Word 1.0 for DOS and an Okidata > > MicroLine 9-pin dot-matrix printer (which I still have). My > brother-the-computer-scientist was jealous -- he worked at the local > university and "only" had 64k of workspace on the CDC mainframe. > > > > On Dec. 31 one year (don't you love the income tax?) I upgraded the Z-152 > to 640k RAM and a 7-MHz NEC V20 chip and added a $399 20-megabyte > full-height hard drive. Ended up giving it to my kid's pre-school loaded > with reading and other teaching programs, all pre-Windows, of course. > > > > When I upgraded my 1200-baud modem to 2400-baud I had to find an off-line > Compuserve-forum-saving/reading program (OzCIS -- for the "old timers" -- > did anyone else here use it?) -- at 1200-baud I could > > read the forums as they scrolled by, but at 2400-baud I could no longer > keep up. Egad, I still remember my Compuserve ID: 75500,3223 > > and there's even one Google "hit" on my CIS ID still remaining "out > > there": > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%2275500%2C3223%22 > > > > Anybody here remember TeamB for dBASE? > > > > Angus > > > > P.S. Yes, I have a (partially) grey beard -- not quite Sid Dabster but > "one of these days" I'll get there ;-) > > > > > > -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 > +-----------------------------------+ > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
