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Dec 08, 2005 Update of News Page to announce designation of the New VS as the VS22000.
Minor update of one of the "Why conversion is a bad idea" pages.
Nov 07, 2005 Finalization of Why conversion is a really, really bad idea.
Nov 06, 2005 Update of various pages for VS model and family information
Nov 05, 2005 Update of table of VS Models page and the text version to reflect the New VS, which may ultimately
be called the "VS22000".
Update of the VS Models tables and the VS Family Portrait to reflect the New
VS (VS22000).
Minor update of Prescription for the VS.
Sep 03 2005 Completed significant update of the VS FAQ page.
Completed update of the Wang VS Conversion page, subtitled Straight Talk about Life After Wang. Added a set of questions VS sites should ask conversion vendors before committing to conversion of their VS applications to some other platform.
Jul 29, 2005 Completed update of Prescription for the VS with annotation,
preserving the original recommendations for reference.
Feb-Jul 2005 Various updates
Feb 13, 2005 Revised the "CLICK HERE FOR HELP FIGURING OUT OPTIONS FOR
WANG® VS™ CONVERSIONS!" material linked from the front
page to reflect the New VS.
Jul 28, 2004 Added news bulletin in News page. Something big is in the works.
Made minor fixups to links in older news stories.
Jan 09, 2004 Site maintenance. Fixed 40+ broken non-JavaScript mail links.
Nov 29, 2003 Site maintenance. Addition of item to front page soliciting
recontact from people whose email addresses may have been
lost here between Aug 14 and Oct 10, 2003.
Mar 29, 2003 Site maintenance. Many pages updated, mostly changes not
visible to visitors.
Mar 18, 2003 Site maintenance. Cleanup of the front page.
Nov 13, 2002 Updated the COBOL ReSource page and FAQ, adding links to
the Data Sheet and zipped PDF manuals. I hope to be able
to make available the straight PDF manuals soon.
Oct 11, 2002 Temporarily removed some recent comments from the News and
Prescription pages in the wake of some negative comments
received indirectly from Getronics.
I'm a businessman, not a journalist, so I don't have a
problem reevaluating what I say on the Website in the
context of business I may do with the company whose
products are the subject of my Website. Of course, if
the business doesn't materialize I would have to
reevaluate the reevaluation.
Aug 18, 2002 Removed the "Polls" link in bar at the top of right-side
frames, moved the "Wang VS Forum" link to the left side,
now titled merely "Forums," and standardized it in all
pages.
Jul 30, 2002 New material is in the Raid, Removables and VS Wanted!
pages, and the Forums have been live for several weeks
and now include Wang VS, COBOL ReSource, and VS Q&A.
See Site News for links to new material.
Jul 12, 2002 Significant changes to the new Forums page
through Spam-proofing of all pages in the site
Jul 16, 2002 (Spammers scan Web pages for email addresses and links
to other pages that might contain email addresses. We
now use WPoison, a server facility that serves up
endless pages of invalid email addresses and links to
more of the same. It is linked from an invisible
clickable link at the bottom right of our Web pages.
If you click on it it will not harm you but you may be
amused to see what it feeds to spammers.)
Jul 08, 2002 More cleanup of the Vendors page. I removed a number of
migration vendors because I'm not interested in helping
them make money taking people to MicroFocus/AcuCOBOL hell
and I don't want anyone to think that I endorse such
migrations.
Added a Wang Wanted page linked from the sidebar on the
front page.
Modifications to several of the other new pages linked from
the front page sidebar.
Jun 26, 2002 We now have our own Wang VS Forum and COBOL ReSource Forum
running here. There are public message boards that replace
the Wang VS Forum at Delphi. Delphi, never a reliable
service, began charging this morning for all but "Basic"
access, and "Basic" doesn't allow us to manage a Forum.
Coincidentally with charging visitors, Delphi introduced
a vast array of new bugs and malfunctions.
Jun 11, 2002 Major update to my Prescription for the VS
with more to follow
Notes in Site News
about unavailability of Mind-It and language translation services
shown on some of the pages here
May 07, 2002 News update - VS Installed Base Stabilized
Apr 17, 2002 Cleanup of the Vendors page, removal of inactive vendors
Jul 31, 2001 Cleaned up the Vendors page, removing broken links and
links to vendor sites that no longer mention the VS.
Added a "no news" editorial on the News page
Added some annotations on a few other pages due to
much of the information presented being seriously
out of step with the presently declining VS market.
Mar 06, 2001 Created the first brief info pages on COBOL ReSource,
RS/6000, RAID, disk and tape drives, removables,
and VS systems for sale.
There have been some recent additions to the Friend
Finder page.
I have been busy lately. The focus of my work is
shifting almost entirely to COBOL ReSource and RS/6000.
Feb 07, 2001 Updated various pages that had become dated and made
various minor corrections.
Added new information to the ABOUT WANG and ABOUT THE VS
pages and the BENCHMARKS page and Benchmark Project page.
The VS landscape is changing rapidly now.
Sep 24, 2000 Updated the Friend Finder / Wang Reunion page with recent
additions
Aug 15, 2000 The front and Thomas Junker consultancy pages have been
updated to reflect the imminent release of a new Website
that will feature products and services and will include
The Unofficial Wang VS Information Center as a subsite.
COBOL ReSource is here, and we are offering it as well as
migration services to go with it.
VS ODBC Server is in beta.
May 9, 2000 The Live VS Web Server pages have been updated somewhat.
May 8, 2000 It is probably noteworthy that there is a new, unreleased VS
CPU now running the Live VS Web Server. What little I can
reveal at present is to be found in the Site News page.
Also some recent techno-geek news about UPS facilities and
automatic shutdown.
Apr 19, 2000 Fixed an HTML error in the Buy/Sell/Trade page that prevented
display of most of the page in some browsers.
Apr 7, 2000 News of the release of VS Web Server as a free, Open Source
product (!!!).
Feb 8, 2000 News about a new VS Website run by Getronics (Wang)
on a VS using VS Web Server.
Jan 19, 2000 Added a new vendor
Added links in the Wang/Getronics vendor entry to the
difficult-to-find VS pages deep inside the Getronics
Website.
Dec 28, 1999 Added a news item about VS Web Server being ready for
release as version 1.00.
Added a site news item about IP address changes and
advice to retarget any IP-address URLs bookmarked for
any pages in the Live VS Web Server.
Dec 25, 1999 Added a translation service to each content page,
offering Spanish, German, French, Italian and
Portugese. Beware of asking for multiple successive
translations, as they present a risk of injury by laughter.
Nov 15, 1999 Added links to the new wangvs.com site operated by
GetronicsWang Co. on a VS. Links are in ABOUT WANG
and LINKS.
Minor corrections to several pages
Oct 18, 1999 ISDN has been back in operation for some time, and
the Live VS Web Server has been up most of the time
in recent weeks. It will probably be down most of
the coming weekend (Oct 30-31) while preparation of
the final release version is underway. The Web Server
Status page now reflects the available status of the
Server.
Oct 3, 1999 Added new page outlining services available from
Thomas Junker to VS sites worldwide, linked from
an annoying but small teaser on the main page
Aug 28, 1999 Added new material to the VS Benchmark Project page
I can now measure VS COBOL verb execution times.
Can you help me get measures of other plaftorms?
Aug 22, 1999 Added two short-term ebay auction items
Aug 5, 1999 Added to VS Shareware page:
VSBENCH3 - New version of VSBENCH, incl VS16000
MEG312 - The MEGAFILE package from Wang Australia
FILEWRTR - Subr that allows procs to write to a file
ALL - Passes filenames to any pgm via GETPARMs
DTRUSER - Drops DTR to async ports under proc control
KILLER - Deletes old print and work files
LISTPRI - Lists pgms having special privileges/priorities
The VS Shareware binaries are now hosted on the Live VS
Web Server. The Shareware page in the Unofficial Wang
VS Information Center contains links to the files on
the VS.
Jul 29, 1999 Added the prototype Wang VS Web Server Support Center
to the Beta page of the Live VS Web Server, replacing
it at port 8040 with a redirect page.
Added links in the Beta page and the Support Center
login page to a text file of demo userids and passwords.
The Support Center is an important demonstration of the
ability of VS CGI programs to exercise session control
and to dynamically build navigation menus from a database,
modified by a user's access level.
Checked and updated Wang links in the About Wang page.
Jul 12, 1999 Updated info on the About Wang page.
Jul 1, 1999 Updated the Vendors page.
Jun 15, 1999 An ISP failure blocked access to the Live VS Web Server for
over three hours this morning, from 0615 to 0930 CDT.
Updated the "FAQs" menu button to "INFO/BOOKS/FAQ" to reflect
the enlarged scope of that page.
Jun 12, 1999 Returned the Live VS Web Server to active duty after a
period of intensive development. Beta 4 is now on the
air.
Jun 04, 1999 Added a new Books page with selected titles from Amazon's
best sellers. The first selection is HTML and JavaScript.
Book covers are active links that take you directly to the
Amazon pages describing the books in detail.
May 31, 1999 Added links in the ABOUT THE VS and VS MODELS pages to an
online "Brain" describing VS models, enclosures,
IOCs and their relationships
May 30, 1999 Added PRIvate NETwork SOLutions Ltd. to Vendors page
May 25, 1999 Added Kennedy CKC, Inc. to Vendors page
Fixed non-monospace of many tel, fax, email items
Removed annoying BOLD except in headings
May 5, 1999 Revised and updated the News page lead article
May 4, 1999 Updated News with brief article on
today's announced takeover of Wang Global by Getronics, NV of
Amsterdam
Revised News on more information from Wang
Added two people to the Friend Finder
Mar 25, 1999 Updated VS Models, HTML and text versions, for
the now official VS18000 Model 1950 FAST rating
Mar 24, 1999 Added a new, large MP3 music file to the Live
VS Web Server's Music page
Mar 23, 1999 News: VS18000 announced on Mar 22
Also OS 7.54, VS Web Server, new SCSI IOC
Mar 1, 1999 Change to Buy/Sell/Trade page
Feb 11, 1999 More entries in the Buy/Sell/Trade page
Jan 31, 1999 More entries in the Friend Finder page
Jan 23, 1999 Added a programmer to Positions Wanted on the Jobs page
Catch-up of minor fixes and changes to FAQ, Vendors,
site news
Nov 30, 1998 Added Datamatics (India) to the Vendors page
Nov 11, 1998 Added a VS resource to the VS Jobs page
Nov 09, 1998 Updated the Site Map
Made minor changes, including causing major offsite links
to open in a new, full-size window
Nov 08, 1998 Added a new Poll page with a number of opinion polls on
VS and Web Server issues. Feel free to suggest more or
different ones.
Nov 06, 1998 Got CGI working, along with HTML macro processing. This
allows Web CGI programs to be written in standard VS
languages and be entirely free of HTML, passing back net
values that are merged into HTML templates.
Oct 26, 1998 Updated the VS Web Server page
Updated several pages at the Live VS Web Server
Connection performance is now stable for concurrent large
file downloads -- this is the Beta
Oct 23, 1998 Added vendor American Cybernetic Corporation to the
Vendors page
Updated the IP address of the Live VS Web Server throughout
the various pages, after switching ISPs once again
Oct 22, 1998 Updated and improved the Music page at the Live VS Web Server
Added a sample PDF document to the Miscellaneous Docs page
There is now a fairly rich selection of media and document
types available at the Live VS Web Server
Oct 18, 1998 Updated Site News with info about power failures today.
Oct 17, 1998 The Live VS Web Server also now has a small library of
sound files, including MIDI and MP3 types, a sample Excel
spreadsheet and an MS Word document, all clickable.
Go to VS WEB SERVER, click on the large blue-green button.
Oct 16, 1998 The Live VS Web Server now has a PowerPoint
presentation of itself and a small music library
containing MIDI and MPEG3 sound.
Oct 16, 1998 The Live VS Web Server now sports music and video files for
online presentation using suitably equipped Web browsers.
Nothing new in the regular Unofficial Website.
Oct 10, 1998 Made a minor change to a vendor listing
Oct 06, 1998 Added a tiny link in the dark title bar of many of the pages
to the Wang VS Forum at Delphi, also links in several key
pages
Oct 03, 1998 Corrected the scale of the VS7300 in the VS Family Portrait.
Oct 02, 1998 Made a small addition to the What's a Wang VS page to expand
the explanation of Remote System Administration Facility
(RSAF) on VS5000/6000 to include mention that it also supports
powering the VS on and off. Try that with a PC server.
Sep 29, 1998 Added 25MB of large graphics to the live VS Web Server,
with thumbnails, mostly spectacular NASA shots of
Space Shuttle and other launches. These graphics are
stored in and served up by the VS.
Sep 27, 1998 Added a new VS Family Portrait page showing a number
of VS cabinets in relative scale (OK, so I'm blind!).
It's linked from VS Models and My Writeup on the VS.
Added a table of VS5000/6000 model designations near the
end of the VS Models page.
Sep 25, 1998 Added all resellers to the Vendors page, expanded
some listings, made format corrections
Sep 10, 1998 Added link to Bo Schreuers' VS software site to
the VS Shareware page and the Links page
Updated my rant about what I think should happen
at Wang and in the VS market if it is to have
a future, now called "My Prescription for the VS"
Minor updates to About the VS, About Wang pages
News update to the Site News page
Sep 16, 1998 Minor updates to Site News, Year 2000, FAQ,
VS Models pages
Added News item about the closing of Access to
Wang magazine
Sep 03, 1998 Added/deleted Buy/Sell/Trade listings
Added a preliminary new item to FAQs pending
receipt of more information
Aug 24, 1998 Added a WTB listing to Buy/Sell/Trade page
Updated Site News to warn of IP address changes
for the VS due to trying a new ISP for a trial
period
Aug 22, 1998 Added 40 counters to pages that didn't yet
have them or that had broken third-party counters
Aug 21, 1998 Added listings for VS systems and equipment for sale
Added listing for surplus VS systems wanted
Added myself to the Vendors page, finally
Updated some vendor listings
Aug 18, 1998 Added two new listings of VS equipment available
Aug 1, 1998 Added a Year 2000 menu button and page.
Moved the News Archive under the News page, no
longer on its own menu button.
Touched up a few small things here and there.
Jul 12, 1998 Updated the What Wang Should Do With The VS page.
Jul 9, 1998 Modified the VS Web Server page
Modified the Web Server Status page
It now links to the alpha test server in addition
to the existing connection test servers, five
servers in all, 32 + 5*16 = 112 connections supported
Jul 8, 1998 Added a new job listing to VS Jobs page
Jul 2, 1998 Added May 1998 Access to Wang column to Articles page
Added to and corrected Site News page
Fixed broken links in News story about Olivetti acquisition
Jun 16, 1998 Added to Friend Finder (Wang Reunion) page
Added minor Site News items in recent days
Made additional tweaks to help the search engines find
the pages through the obstacle of the frame structure
Added IMG size clauses to the Global Audit icon to prevent
delays in browser page layout while waiting for the icon
to load
Jun 03, 1998 Added a Frameless Menu and straightened out noframes display
Visitors without frames may now use a menu to navigate directly
to all top-level pages without being confronted by noframes
advisories. The Site Map is also offered to noframes visitors
but it is the one and only, most of the links invoking framesets.
Those framesets now all have correct noframes links, though, to
the actual pages, an extra click as the price for using the
intuitive graphic site map.
Cleaned up the "What I'd Like to See Wang Do With the VS" essay.
May 26, 1998 Added to Wang Reunion page
Added to VS Jobs page
May 25, 1998 Added a page under About Wang detailing my present thoughts
on things Wang could (should?) do to reverse the decline
of the VS market (and, by the way, VS revenues).
May 24, 1998 Added historical reference links to the About Wang page.
Created a Wang VS Forum at Delphi, the online service.
So far the only link is in Site News.
May 22, 1998 Added another VS Shareware program.
May 20, 1998 Added three more VS Shareware programs.
May 19, 1998 Added the first VS Shareware program to that page.
Updated the Vendors page.
Added Amazon.com links, and a number of book links in the
About Wang page. I'm now an Amazon.com Associate, so any
book purchases made through my links will help support
this Website without costing you anything over the
regular discounted price of any books you order.
Added a show-and-tell copy of my own LinkExchange banner
to the Site News page, along with instructions for those
who have too much time on their hands on how to add my
banner to their own Web sites should the wish to do so.
Also, over the last few days, I have made new submissions to
a number of Web search engines, with some results. For
reasons I don't yet understand, the engines don't seem to
like this Website and all except one had dropped it from
their databases. I discovered this after noticing that
the "referrer" pages for many visits were my older wangloc
and other pages, now obsolete but apparently still
catalogued or bookmarked somewhere.
May 18, 1998 Added the Articles page with links to my articles from Access
to Wang.
Added a LinkExchange banner (yuck!) to the Entrance page.
This in a desperate move to reach the larger part of the
VS community that has still not visited here. Maybe
some of them will perk up when they see my banner on
some model train site, or while tracing their family trees
on the Internet. Hey -- it could happen!
May 13, 1998 Added Genesis to Buy/Sell/Trade page, cleaned up the page
layout, alphabetized the resellers.
May 11, 1998 Added the new VS Shareware page. Nothing to download yet,
but the page is on the menu and in the site map, ready
for links to downloadable VS shareware.
Apr 25, 1998 Modified the Web Server Status page. It is now a static
page that provides a link to the VS, which has its own
IP address now. (!) New about this is on the Site News
page. In time the Web Server Status Page will dynamically
reflect the status of the server (On-Air / Off-Air) and
the server software available for live viewing.
Apr 16, 1998 Added new page, Site News, to present info on
what's new at the Website
Apr 15, 1998 Added two new web stat sources since Nedstat has
been down for a whole day twice in about a week.
Yuck! Tax day. This is no way for a free people
to live.
Apr 11, 1998 Added pic of keyboard to the Feedback page
Added pic of my VS to the VS Benchmarks page
Added pic of 4230B workstation to VS FAQ page
Apr 9, 1998 Added pic of VS6230 to About the VS page
Added pic of self to the Feedback page
Apr 7, 1998 Submitted URL to Excite, HotBot, Lycos,
AltaVista, InfoSeek, WebCrawler
Apr 6, 1998 Noticed that all references to tjunker pages have
disappeared from Alta Vista. Resubmitted.
Apr 4, 1998 Redesigned the VS Web Server Demo button
Updated the Web Server page
Mar 31, 1998 Added VS Web Server button, page, added to site map
Cosmetic changes to Entrance page
Mar 28, 1998 Added details of News about Olivetti Olsy acquisition and
rumored decision to produce the new VS18000
Minor editing of the What's a VS? page
Fixed links, non-links on Vendors page
Cosmetic update of Site Map page, including "new" icons
Mar 26, 1998 Added various items to Vendors, Buy/Sell, Friend Finder
pages, mostly catching up outstanding requests for
listings
Mar 25, 1998 Fixed backgrounds after testing with MS IE and seeing that
pages were coming up with gray backgrounds
Mar 24, 1998 Completed menu button highlighting using JavaScript
Installed new pages as the primary Website
Mar 23, 1998 Completed Site Map graphics and page, with links
Mar 22, 1998 Completed major phase of site overhaul. All pages are now
accessible from the new entrance page, although more
remains to be done to pretty them up and break out more of
the sections embedded in the original large main page.
Significant additional update and edit of What's a VS?
Significant update and edit of text at end of Models page
Creation of The Unofficial VS Benchmark Project
Mar 21, 1998 Began overhaul of Website to use frame-based control panel
Added construction link in old Main Page to new Main Page
Overhauled background page, What's a VS? in new About the
VS
Functional menu buttons so far are News, News Archive,
About Wang, About the VS, Feedback and Rev History.
Mar 20, 1998 Added Website stats icon, link to main page
Mar 16, 1998 Updated Vendors Page, adding Muller
Mar 02, 1998 Updated Vendors Page, removing Caelus, Inc.
Feb 21, 1998 Updated to Wang Office Locations page, fix links to
Wang's International and Worldwide lists, unable
to locate Wang's U.S. office/branch list since it
disappeared from its former Web address
Feb 05, 1998 Updated to VS Jobs page
Feb 03, 1998 Minor correction to VS FAQ page
Jan 29, 1998 Added two entries to Vendors Page
Jan 25, 1998 Updated Vendors Page
Jan 20, 1998 Added to Wang Reunion Page
Dec 03, 1997 Removed outdated Jobs listings
Dec 27, 1997 Added Century Readiness Services download document
Nov 19, 1997 Added download of Oct 30 Curtis letter and Year 2000,
Century products to Main Page - four rtf documents
Nov 17, 1997 Updated VS FAQ page to add "How do I equip/connect my VS
for TCP/IP?" and to add VS16850 info to "Is the VS still a
viable platform?"
Nov 14, 1997 Updated Main Page: Wang's 10-year VS commitment & Century
Software
Nov 11, 1997 Updated Vendors and VS Trader pages
Oct 16, 1997 Updated news in Main Page
Oct 15, 1997 Updated news in Main Page after returning from InterACTION 97.
Oct 05, 1997 Updated news in Main Page. Going to InterACTION.
Sep 06, 1997 Updated news area with link to VS Web Server demo,
subscription link for Wang VS General Discussion
email list, minor language revisions to several
other news items
There is now a live VS Web Server available at irregular
times for connection and viewing
Sep 04, 1997 Updated news of the VS Web Server, DISKUSE replacement
Aug 1997 Various cosmetic changes
Jul 28, 1997 Updated items in VS Trader Page, remodeled presentation
Jul 26, 1997 Added navigation toolbar to Main Page to go directly
to News, Contents, Wang, Links, Misc, and to link to
Spanish page and mail for feedback
Modified font and size to Arial or Helvetica or Futura
Removed tan background image
Jul 25, 1997 Updated Main Page
Added to VS Trader Page
Jun 20, 1997 Updated Main Page, VS Models (incl txt)
Jun 17, 1997 Updated Main Page
May 14, 1997 Updated Main Page
May 10, 1997 Added to VS Trader page
??? ??, 1997 Updated Main Page
Jul 06, 1996 Added to Wang Reunion page
Jul 02, 1996 Added to Wang Reunion page
Jun 10, 1996 Some revision and cleanup of main Wang page
with a new entry or two
Onsite links now segregated and annotated
Added entries to Vendor page
Jun 05, 1996 Added animated alert about free speech news
Jun 04, 1996 Added an available VS system to VS Trader page
May 29, 1996 Addition to VS Trader page
May 21, 1996 Addition to VS Jobs page
May 19, 1996 Addition to VS Vendor page
Apr 15, 1996 Addition to VS Jobs page
Mar 25, 1996 Updated VS Jobs page
Added a position wanted
Added page positioning links
Mar 22, 1996 Updated WUG newsletters
Fixed internal links by removing BASE tag
Links now work with Netscape 2.x
Fixed typo in publisher's mailto link
Mar 21, 1996 Addition to Wang Reunion page
Mar 20, 1996 Additions to Wang Reunion page
New posting
Links to search engines useful in finding people
Hints on finding people
Instructions on setting up a people finder web page
Mar 19, 1996 Additions to VS Trader page
Mar 10, 1996 Addition to VS Trader page
Mar 08, 1996 Various minor updates since Feb 17...
Feb 17, 1996 Updated VS Trader page -- another satisfied trader
Feb 14, 1996 Updated Reunion page
Feb 12, 1996 Removed black-on-white from pages
Feb 08, 1996 Turn pages black on white to call attention to the
unconstitutional provisions of the Telecommunications
Reform Act, which make the Internet the most heavily
regulated medium in the United States.
Feb 07, 1996 Updated VS Vendor page
Feb 06, 1996 Updated What's a Wang page
Added counters to more pages
Feb 01, 1996 Added "visit" counters to most pages lacking same
Jan 20, 1996 Updated VS Vendor page
Jan 19, 1996 Updated VS Trader page
Jan 15, 1996 Updated VS Vendor page
Jan 10, 1996 Updated VS Vendor page
Updated VS Trader page
Updated FAQ Fodder page
Updated Wang Offices page
Updated Main page
Jan 03, 1996 Updated VS Trader page
Dec 29, 1995 Updated Main Page
Added link to new www.wang.com site
Added link to new www.wangfed.com site
Dec 19, 1995 Updated Reunion Page
Dec 13, 1995 Updated Main Page
Added link to International Wang User Group Home Page
Dec 09, 1995 Updated main page
Added link to Wang Disaster Services
Updated VS Trader page
Added WLOC cards available for trade
Added VS100 available for free
Added Computer Brokerage Resources
Updated VS Jobs page
Added a PACE programmer offering services
Dec 06, 1995 Updated Wang Offices page
Corrected Belgium phone, fax
Dec 03, 1995 Updated VS Models page, both versions
Made corrections to model data
Arranged strictly by CP, Model
Added VS Processor Ranking page
Shows CP's, models in performance order
Updated Main Page to link to new page
Nov 27, 1995 Updated Buy/Sell/Trade page
Begin adding internet-audit hooks
Pulled internet-audit hooks - service is faulty
Fixed unnoticed "<" chars in Jul 95 INSIGHT that had
caused some browsers to see remainder of document after
the 4gb SCSI disk tables as preformatted text
Nov 26, 1995 Changed IWUG Newsletter Archive page:
Revised links to newsletters
Added links to May 1995 text, July 1995 HTML
Added new pages:
July 1995 INSIGHT, converted to HTML
May 1995 INSIGHT, text
Both issues are now available HTML and text
Nov 24, 1995 Changed Main Page:
Changed background texture
Nov 21, 1995 Added to Main Page:
Link to IWUG/WUG Newsletter Archive
Added new pages:
IWUG/WUG Newsletter Archive header page
May 1995 INSIGHT, converted to HTML
July 1995 INSIGHT, text, not yet converted
Nov 16, 1995 Added to Vendor page:
Excalibur Data Recovery Inc.
SOFTWARE AG of North America
USI Industries, Inc.
Changed on Vendor page:
Minitech Ltd. (UK) to Prometrics, Ltd.
Nov 09, 1995 Changed Wang Offices page:
Added major U.S. field offices
total offices listed now 36 in 23 countries
Added navigational anchors for page positioning
Nov 07, 1995 Changed VS Models page:
Minor corrections, updates
Changed VS Models (text) page:
Finally carried over major updates from the graphic page
Nov 02, 1995 Changed main page:
Added link to Lycos WWW search engine
Revised and updated the news blurb about the VS16000
Minor editing
Changed the VS Models page:
Added FAST ratings for 7030, 8x30 processors
Corrected CP4 system and memory bus widths, transposed
Changed VS Jobs page:
Added Computer Operator job, changed format slightly
Nov 01, 1995 Changed on Wang Offices page:
Updated corporate office address, phone
Expanded list to include offices in 23 countries
Oct 30, 1995 Fixed syntax err in link on Vendor page
Oct 28, 1995 Modified VS Models page:
Added substantial new data on models, performance
Oct 27, 1995 Added new page: Wang VS Jobs
First job listing posted
Changed on main page:
Jobs now an active link
More Spanish... now translated through the
all-important links to sub-pages
Oct 25, 1995 News about reappearance of wang.com page
More Spanish
Oct 24, 1995 Minor changes to:
What's a Wang?
FAQ Fodder
Added to main page:
Teaser for possible Jobs page. Anybody interested?
Added to Wang Offices page:
Wang New Zealand
Changed on Wang Offices page:
format (still not the way I want it)
Added: main page in Spanish (in progress)
Oct 23, 1995 Added to Vendor page:
Access to Wang
Changed on Vendor page:
Ordering, from none to alphabetic by vendor, with
Wang first (since they do *make* the stuff)
Changed SEEK Systems into a hyperlink, thanks to
visitor who pointed me to it.
Oct 22, 1995 Corrected various typos
Oct 20, 1995 Added/Changed on FAQ Fodder page:
Updated question about new VS
Minor updates to several items
Added question on RSF FDDI transport
Oct 19, 1995 Added to Wang Offices page:
Wang Federal, Inc., VA?
Englewood, CO
Changed on Wang Offices page:
Wang Labs 800 number to 800 NEW-WANG (639-9264)
Added to Vendor page:
Wang Laboratories, Inc.
SEEK Systems
Corona Software AB
Oct 18, 1995 Added two new pages:
Wang Laboratories Reunion Page
Statement of Purpose
Added to main page:
Major news of unveiling of new Orion VS16000
Minor piece of news about imminent new Wang site
Changed on main page:
Wang Federal, Inc. link to new Wang page that appeared
today for the first time.
Changed on HTML and text VS Model pages:
Added VS16000 announced today at InterAction conference
Added to FAQ page:
Is the VS still a viable platform?
Changed on What's a VS page:
Clarified model number, name of new VS16000
Expanded the networking discussion to include mention
of Wang's former network of 900 VS systems
Oct 15, 1995 Added links on Vendor page:
CompuForms Limited, Wang VS Integrated Forms Management
DMR Computer Limited, VS, PACE software development
The Boston Software Works, Incorporated, InterOFFICE
Minitech (UK) Ltd., Warp caching SCSI disk subsystem
Moved from main page to Vendor page:
SanSoft, VUPort Product
Ontrack Computer Systems, Incorporated, data recovery
Added to main page:
Link to info on Wang's OPEN/image for SQLWindows
Deleted from main page mention of apparent absence of
MacSoft Lightspeed web page.
Added to Wang Offices page:
Atlanta, GA
Bethesda, MD
Juneau, AK
Lowell, MA
New York, NY
Rosslyn, VA
Wang Belgium
Wang Canada
Wang France
Wang Nederland
Oct 13, 1995 Added links that mention Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Finally found MacSoft Lightspeed page... added links on
Vendor page.
Oct 12, 1995 Revised descriptive text on home page, emphasized urgency of
interested parties contacting me, and reversed the policy of
attribution of contributed news and other information. No
source of information sent to me will be identified without
explicit permission of the contributor.
Oct 10, 1995 Added the Revision History page, with form for a visitor to
register for notification of changes to the History. This
allows a visitor to receive notification of any substantive
change to any page in The Unofficial Wang VS Information
Center. Added link from main page to History page.