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Vintage Computers (1980 to 1995)

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Something a little different arrived last weekend. Display card is missing but system itself 👍

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@AlsGeekLab 4679353, still remember it off by heart

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@PaulBrislen Yeah I keep reporting the same scam, seems to go nowhere.

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@AGONbyAOC I7 8086K - doesn’t always keep up with the 3080 but fast enough I’m not motivated to upgrade yet.

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@SlopesGameRoom She sure does have some big slopes

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For the life of me, I could not find my drill or its charger. I said to myself “Why don’t I use one of these drawers for them?” … seems I forgot I already had 😂

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@wangianer Seems to use XTAL.SYS "1987WPC/APC Translator/I.S Emulation - v.4.50 " - seems to sit in the first cluster after the root directory.

I'm just wanting to archive any Wang specific software I can find - from anywhere, before it gets lost, I'll check to see if the 123 is Wang.

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The archive was a success! It turns out the Wang Professional uses 256 byte sectors and the Wang 2275 ecoding method apparently. Anyone have a Wang Pro emulator I can throw it at?

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@wangianer It had 123, WordPerfect and PC Write. MSDOS 3.2 (Wang version)

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@wangianer I got the data in the end :) I wrote a program in C to read the Wang partitions and mounted file systems in Linux but nothing exciting found, just IBM PC software :(

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@AliceAutomata What’s tripping me out is I have that exact case next to me lol my initial reaction was Quake but the 40 would be a bit slow for that :/

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@lazygamereviews Epic! I wouldn't order though, probably stale by now.

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@wangianer You wouldn’t happen to know where I could find Wang specific software by chance? This was full of IBM PC software like WP and Lotus 123 :/

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@wangianer I have 3, but monitor and keyboard in storage and power supplies need work :) I will get it sorted eventually haha just wanted to be sure I didn’t lose data off this one.

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Looks like someone tried to run DIGGER, realised it didn't work and deleted it - PC archelogy is fun sometimes. I'm assuming the other program is "DUCK .COM" and not something else

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Todays job, archiving a fully loaded Wang Professional 30Mb hard drive unit - wish me luck

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@cyberat2600 Australian/NZ :)

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Big thanks to Caluser2000 for delivering these in person! #ibmjx

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New restoration project. The extra words on the badge have me a surprise.