[rescue] Wang machines
Big Endian
bigendian at mac.com
Tue Jan 15 11:39:57 CST 2002
> I've got an old Wang machine sitting at home. In the furniture
>vein, it's done duty as a coffee/end table. :)
>
> Does any one have a good site for identifying this thing? I had
>hopes of hacking the case and filling it with a bunch of PC boards or
>Older sparc machines and making it into a Beowulf cluster. I'd hate to
>ruin something like this though.
>
> The machine has no part numbers that I can find. There are no
>labels on the outside other then the word "Wang." It has a 5 1/4 inch 360k
>floppy drive, a full size hard drive with again, no labels on it! There
>are 5 system boards, each is about 4 ft sqaure and slips into it's own
>rail. Examining the boards I believe that two are processors and the other
>three are memory boards based off of chip numbers. :)
>
> Externally there are about a dozen BNC connections that are
>numbered. I assume those are the terminal connections? (I think it may be
>labeled that way.) The machine sounds like it boots up, and the hard drive
>moves for several minutes then quiets down. Thanks in advance for any
>pointers!
Pictures?
daniel
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