November 24, 2007
There are a set of manuals that I've had for a long time but which I never scanned. A few were spiral bound, and I was too lazy to unwind, scan, and rewind the manuals. A few I had only a single copy of and I was loathe to cut the spines off for the sake of scanning. For whatever reason, I finally gave up my objections and did the deed this long Thanksgiving weekend.
Here are the new scans:
- 2200 A/B BASIC Programming Manual
- 2200 A/B Reference Manual
- 2200S Reference Manual
- BASIC Programming Manual
- BASIC-2 Language Pocket Guide
- Programming in BASIC
- System 2200 Disk Memory Reference Manual
There is a new page listing all of the various peripiherals that Wang made for the 2200 family (or at least the ones I could find reference to).
The tables on the Documents page have been augmented to show for each document the date of each publication, along with the Wang publication reference number.
The navigation menus were changed slightly to show the submenus for a given part of the tree only if the current page was part of that subtree. That is, at any given time, at most one subtree will be expanded.
January 13, 2007
Over the past few months, stealing a few hours here and there, I've finally been able to capture about a hundred Wang 2200 floppy disk images that Mike Bahia sent back in July of 2005.
The task isn't as simple as it seems. First, I had to set up my Catweasel card, connect an 8" floppy drive to it (although the catweasel has only a 5.25" floppy interface, sadly), write some code to drive the card and decode the bit transitions into a coherent disk image. Because I had so many disk images to sort through and make sense of, I learned enough Python (I've wanted to learn it for a while) to write a utility program to inspect and manipulate the disk images, resulting in wvdutil.
But the task wasn't done; it takes a long time to sort through 100 disks, identify their contents, find duplicates, distinguish between different revisions, etc. The result is a new page containing Virtual Media images. Right now it contains disk images, although there are a few zip files containing programs extracted from tapes, courtesy of Georg Schäfer.
Fellow Wang acolyte Tim Lahey was kind enough to send a System 2200 Summary cheatsheet, containing the syntax and very brief description of each Wang BASIC command.
The Wang 2200 website is now six years old. The first year was pretty slow. Back then I had no 2200 of my own, and I put up the web page simply in hopes someone would stumble across it and I could start networking to find more Wang 2200 material. It seems to have worked. :-)
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(anything over a year old is no longer noted)
January, 2001
Web site started