On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:23:22 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:23:06 -0600, Bob Yates wrote:
>> Anyone have info on this old laptop? Picked it up at a used computer
>> store, no power supply so don't know if it will even work
>> Bob.
> Hi Bob:
> I believe all the Wangs started going out toward the end of the CPM era.
> I could be way wrong on that point, but I never heard of a Wang that could
> run DOS. Maybe it's a CPM laptop, if ever there were such a thing.
There were in fact "Wang"s that were shipped running Win 3.x and even
Win for workgroups. I put Wang in quotes because by this time Wang was
not actually manufacturing the machines. A machine was branded "Wang" by
being marketed by Wang with extensive installation and support included,
usually to businesses. The "Wang"s of that era had no other brand
markings on them, but if you were familiar with desktop mobos, you could
figure out what brand you actually had.
Laptops were an exception to this. While not made by Wang, those models
were exclusive to Wang distributors.
Wang no longer markets desktops under their own name. They do have a
proprietary mainframe OS that they use with Workgroups or NT clients.
Wang is still going strong as a consultant and servicer to large
corporations.
My brother has been working for Wang for about three years now. I'll jab
him again to ask some of the old timers about your machine.
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