UPDATE: The New VS (VS22000) now supports 928 devices. External cable concentrator equipment such as Wall Mount Housings, EAPAs, FAPAs and 6550/6550A TC units are needed for deployment with New VS systems. We will make offers on this equipment.

We have need of the following Wang VS equipment:

• Wall Mount Housings (WMH)
• Coax EAPAs and Fiber APAs
• 6550/6550A TC DLPs
• 37-pin Cable Concentrator cables
• VS8200, any processor, working, with SCU PC and SCU cable

Due to the 2005 release of the New VS (VS22000) our interest in accepting VS equipment is greatly diminished. We have reason to believe that our use for traditional VS equipment other than external cable concentrator and related APAs and TC units will disappear very soon.

We are no longer buying any Wang VS equipment other than what is listed above. If, however, you have equipment you would rather see remain in circulation than be scrapped, we will consider paying shipping for the following items, funds permitting:

• VS5460 16MB CPU board
• VS6120 CPU board, minimum 8MB
• VS5000/6000 RCU board
• Image Transfer Controller (ITC) board
• 50V56 802.3 LAN Controller board
• 50V68 SCSI IOC board
• 50V68E Caching SCSI IOC board
• 70V68 SCSI IOC board & cable/backpanel

Equipment that is donated or that we salvage is generally used here in conversion projects or kept in reserve for loan to clients. We have sold almost no VS equipment, ever. We have, though, provided numerous pieces of loaner equipment to clients to tide them over difficult times or to alleviate the need to buy equipment that would only see service for a short time before decommissioning of a VS.

Example 1:

A client was several months from cutting over to their new COBOL ReSource system. They had an assortment of non-Wang disk drives on a SEEK controller on their VS. Drives began to fail and SCSI chains began to exhibit complex, changing failures. They considered buying about $9,000 of new disk drives to stablize the system to see them through to project completion. Upper management would not have been pleased by this. We provided a 70V68 SCSI IOC and 28 GB of Wang and non-Wang disk drives in SSM-C and MDSC-D enclosures to stabilize their system and provide even more storage space in which to manipulate data being moved to the new platform.

Example 2:

A client moving to COBOL ReSource brought in a small RS/6000. They had an EMC enterprise RAID and it would have been logical to connect the RS/6000 to the EMC unit for its application data storage. The client had issues with EMC, however, and the connection was not easy or inexpensive to arrange. We bypassed the problem by providing a long-term loan of a 52 GB RAID for the RS/6000. Work was able to proceed unhindered by lack of storage capacity and the client was able to avoid dealing with EMC issues. We later sold and installed a 103 GB multihost RAID.

Please if you have any of the above equipment available.

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