Date   : Thu, 22 Oct 1992 03:09:22 GMT
From   : dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!wilken@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Wilken)
Subject: What the heck is this thing????

A friend of mine just bought what he thought was an apple compatable
machine at some sort of swap meet.  Upon getting it home he could not
get it to boot with any of his apple disks so he asked me to look at it.

I opened it up, and found the drive to have the connectors one would
expect to find on a PC clone (card edge and power in the familiar size
and shape).  The thing CANT be an apple clone as it has 256k memory.

The obvious thing to do was to check what type of microprocessor it uses,
but I dont see anything familiar to me.  It has a soldered in hitachi
chip numbered 6505, and a square chip in a square socket with no lettering
on it (although a big heat sink is attached, so im thinking this thing myst
be the CPU). 

It wont accept a DOS disk, so im figuring it must be a CPM machine or 
something.

Has anyone seen this?  It was made in 1984 by Wang and has a model number of
WOA-20.  If anyone has any info on what the heck this is, and what operating
system it uses, or at least can tell me how to contact Wang, I would be
very grateful.

Thanks...

Scott
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