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Submitted by Ex-parrot on February 29, 2004 - 9:11pm. Other | Computers | Documents | Other Computers

This historical curiosity I picked up at a school. I'm not entirely sure what it does or how it does it.

It sports 3 racks of 2 boards each, labelled KILL, UNISYS-ASYNC-9600, and PROGS.

It has 4 RS232C ports, 3 of which are connected. It has 4 proprietary WANG terminal interfaces.

On powering it up, I get the lights on the front blinking.

I've taken to calling it a "mainframe" but I have no idea what it really is. Any extra
information (model numbers, processors etc....) would be appreciated.

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Wang WPS or OIS

Submitted by Eudimorphodon on February 29, 2004 - 10:34pm.

I'd be willing to bet it's either an original Wang WPS Word Processor, or one of the smaller Wang OIS (Office Information Systems) systems.

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Feh

Submitted by Ex-parrot on March 3, 2004 - 7:37am.

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Remote Communications controller

Submitted by danomano on April 28, 2004 - 5:44pm.

Those boxes were used for hooking modem lines into the Wang system to enable remote communications. Each of the dual coax connectors has a corresponding RS-232 port. Hook a system such as a VS 1000 onto the coax, hook a modem up to the RS-232 port, then across the street (or country) hook modems onto the remote controller, and hook the coax to a printer, terminal, etc.

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I think I have seen that before.

Submitted by coius on January 28, 2005 - 1:48am.

When my dads company (Honeywell) and WANG teamed up in his building, I saw a lot of the controllers that they used. (the branch was in Nebraska). Huh... Nice to see one of those things again

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