Wang2200.org

Thus update doesn't bring any new content, just style changes:

• The menu system was redesigned to have the menu at the top instead of along a wide gutter on the left. This makes better use of screen real estate. Having the actual 2200 font for the menu system is pretty heavy for people on dial up, so apologies to you broadband holdouts.
• To make the menus fit horizontally in under 80 characters, the categories were shuffled a bit and the menu labels were shortened. Compensating for this, hovering over a menu item displays a long description of that item.
• Section headings are more lightweight.
• The code examples scattered throughout the site were restyled to resemble CRT displays.
• This news page was restyled.

John (Kirit) Baxi, a former Wang engineer, sent along a very interesting addition for the site. It is an unreleased product developed by Wang, a BASIC-2 interpreter for the Wang PC. Unfortunately, the program doesn't work on standard PCs, and perhaps works only on "classic" Wang PCs. If you have such a PC and can give the program a spin, please contact me and let me know.

Style change -- the body font is now 14px instead of the default 16px, which is much more in line with most websites. Sorry if you have bad eyes and no glasses. CTRL-+ in your browser will increase the font size for any website you visit.

Moved to a new web hosting service. Please let me know if you notice any missing links or other hiccups. One side effect of this move is that a few .pl files refuse to present as text/plain mime type despite the proper .htaccess file configuration, so now I expose them as zip files.

Paul Heller contributed this manual:

• 2207A I/O Interface Controller Reference Manual

Ron O'Kelly donated a box of interesting documents. There are more things I need to capture, but this is what I've processed so far:

• 2207A Interface Controller Data Sheet
• 2236 Terminal and Mux Controller Data Sheet
• 2260B Fixed/Removable Disk Drive
• 2261W Line Printer
• 2261W line Printer User Manual
• 2236DW Interactive Terminal User Manual
• WCS/30 Technical Information
• 1977 Wang sales proposal for Georgetown Hardware, Inc.
• Wang Labs 1976 Annual Report
• Wang Laboratories, Inc: An Overview

Finally, here is a datasheet of unknown origin. It was in a subfolder of a subfolder etc., and only recently came it again:

• 2203 Punched Paper Tape Reader Data Sheet

The floating point format page was updated with a bit of trivia concerning who wrote the for the floating point routines.

The systems page was updated with reference to the WCS/40, and the footnotes are now generated automatically instead of having to manually insert all the html. This has made it easier for me to add more footnotes. While I was at it, I attempted to be more specific about which page of a document a given footnote came from.

A couple of updates to the Iskra-226 page, including the proper Cyrillic spelling, Искра-226.

Only a very minor update. Some time back I bought an ad off of ebay, but it was filed and never scanned. Recently I came across it again, and now it is online.

I just discovered a very interesting email from Richard L. Langley from five years ago concerning Wang history. Sadly, and inexplicably, I never replied to him, and now his email address is stale. If you are Richard Langley, or know one who used to work at Wang, please have him get in contact with me.

I made a small stylistic change. All section headers, (the green bars) except those on this page, have anchor tags. I've just added some styling so that these tags appear as "(link)" in small letters to the right of the header text, making it easier to bookmark a link to a given section of a page.

(anything over a year old is no longer noted)

Web site started