Date   : Mon, 26 Oct 1992 02:25:56 GMT
From   : munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!fawlty!steve@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Blanche)
Subject: Re: What the heck is this thing????

In article <BwI63n.9C5@ns1.nodak.edu> wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
writes:
>A friend of mine just bought what he thought was an apple compatable
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>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.
Yep, Wang Office Assistant, primarily a dedicated Word Processor, used a
80186 CPU, I repaired those boxes back in '85 -'86  not very exciting,
they did have some packages other than Wordprocessing, incl. spreadsheet and
communications packages, sorry, it didnt support MS-DOS or other 'known'
operating systems. If I remember correctly, the WOA-20 had a 360k floppy 
and a WOA-40 incl a 10 MB h/disk  and were sold with a printer eg Diablo.
You could use it for parts, or rip the m/bd out and buy more suitable
m/bd.
>
Steve



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