Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I learned to program in high school on a Wang 2200T. It a very modern machine and had a CRT, keyboard, 8? floppy dive, impact printer and card reader. We had to share it between about 12 of us in the first computer science class taught in that high school. When I got to university (Waterloo), I had to learn to use a card punch and share 300 baud terminals with a few hundred of my fellow classmates. That was a culture shock! :) I will always remember Wang Computers with fondness. Regards, Spencer On Dec 15, 2013, at 22:08, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > We lived in Lowell, closed to the Wang Lab headquarter. Unfortunately Fred > Wang wanted to be and probably more suited to be a teacher instead of a > CEO, and the company fortune dropped to zero in just a few years. I learned > to program on a DEC-10 KL10 model but never did get to see the magnetic > core. I think they only decommissioned it finally just a few years ago. > Among the notable features (like 9 bit bytes and 36 bit words) is the JIFY > instruction.