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A Wang 1200 appears in the 2011 movie version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. That is what lead me to this website. I love your collection of TTL schematic diagrams. At 85, I find that I can still read them like a book. Thank you for giving my gray cells something to do. In 1967 I helped Ken Brooks design an intereface between AT&T's Automatic Intertoll Test Circuit and an IBM card punch/card reader and electric typewriter. The logic consisted of one gross wire spring realays, 54 electro-mechanical counters, a WECo Noise Measuring Set and two cards loaded with discrete transistors. Integrated circuits came later for me. Ken and I were the first civilians allowed by IBM to interface with and slightly modify their equipment. Or so I have been told. I don't care what you say, Gooogle Search is the greatest thing since sliced bread! Thank you for your site!!!

Great site, very interesting reading indeed. My personal interest is in IBM Selectrics and the Hybrids based around it. Do you know the specifics of the 'spring' referred to which was behind the carriage position issues with the Wang 1200?

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Steve
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I worked for Wang from about 1974 until 1979. I started out in field service for the 1200 and was there through the 1220, the 1222, and the WPS. Although I moved to the computer side of the house, I still did some WP stuff when they were overloaded. Contrary to some of the material you read the IBM Mag Tape (MT/ST) was out before the 1200, and the Mag card was a competitor. The advent of the Mac, and then the PC, pretty much killed the word processor business.

Glad that you have put this history together. I started at Wang in 1979 and was put to work immediately revising the 5548z Typesetter manual and went on to write various printer manuals.