olddataman
Experienced Member
There are two interesting computers in the "vintage" catagory that I have never seen mentioned in anyone's collection or on eBay or other auction sites.
One is the Wang PC. They were out in about 1984, were built like the provebial brick outhouse and were 8086 based. They made no apologies for not being IBM compaatable, but furnished a nice DOS Shell to get around this and they wrked like a charm.
The other is the Alpha Microsystems S-100 bus system based on the Western Digital/DEC PDP-11 chip set with a couple of insstructions changed to get around DEC patented instructions. These insructions were changed to a couple of MOVE instructions to accomodate the S-100 8-bit menory data bus. They weere programmed in an in-house developd Basic that was Respected and loved by virtually all users. We sold them for years, as one of the first 8 dealers chosen. We had systems that had a meg of memory, had 16 crt terminals attached, two or three high capacity printers and CDC Cartridge disk system. Those of you who have the first 12 months of Dr. Dobbs Jurnal, scan them for an article by Dick Wilcox which describes the computer to the Home Brew computer club in 1975 or 76. It would be a terrible shame if these two computers disappereaed into the recyle bin just because noone was familiar with them.
Ray
One is the Wang PC. They were out in about 1984, were built like the provebial brick outhouse and were 8086 based. They made no apologies for not being IBM compaatable, but furnished a nice DOS Shell to get around this and they wrked like a charm.
The other is the Alpha Microsystems S-100 bus system based on the Western Digital/DEC PDP-11 chip set with a couple of insstructions changed to get around DEC patented instructions. These insructions were changed to a couple of MOVE instructions to accomodate the S-100 8-bit menory data bus. They weere programmed in an in-house developd Basic that was Respected and loved by virtually all users. We sold them for years, as one of the first 8 dealers chosen. We had systems that had a meg of memory, had 16 crt terminals attached, two or three high capacity printers and CDC Cartridge disk system. Those of you who have the first 12 months of Dr. Dobbs Jurnal, scan them for an article by Dick Wilcox which describes the computer to the Home Brew computer club in 1975 or 76. It would be a terrible shame if these two computers disappereaed into the recyle bin just because noone was familiar with them.
Ray