Wang VS85

Wang VS 85

This VS85, donated by the Wells River Savings Bank, uses the CP4 processor and was introduced in 1983. It has 32 bit system bus, a 64 bit memory bus and a 16 bit I/O bus. This system is a short single bus version of a VS100. This system could support 4 MB of RAM, 32 Workstations, 1 disk IOP, 4 disk drives, 6 communications lines, and 1 22V25-2 tape IOP for the 2219V tape drive. With the additional 32 kB cache board installed it would support a second disk IOP and 8 disk drives, and 48 workstations.

This system was available in 6 configurations:

VS85-1, $63,000

VS85 CPU, 1 MB RAM, Operating System, Assembler

22V27-2 16-port serial IOP

2266S-3 48K Archiving Workstation

VS85-2, $73,000

VS85 CPU, 2 MB RAM, Operating System, Assembler

22V27-2 16-port serial IOP

2266S-3 48K Archiving Workstation

VS85-4, $91,000

VS85 CPU, 4 MB RAM, Operating System, Assembler

22V27-2 16-port serial IOP

2266S-3 48K Archiving Workstation

VS85E, $78,000

VS85 CPU, 1 MB RAM, Operating System, Assembler

22V27-2 16-port serial IOP

22V28 4-Port Disk IOP

22V26-3 3-Port TC IOP

2266S-3 48K Archiving Workstation

2280V-3 90 MB Disk Drive

220-3041-20 Disk 'A' Cable - 25 feet

220-3033-22 Disk 'B' Cable - 25 feet

Compiler, (COBOL, RPGII, BASIC, or PL/1)

VS85F, $83,000

VS85 CPU, 1 MB RAM, Operating System, Assembler

22V27-2 16-port serial IOP

22V28 4-Port Disk IOP

22V26-3 3-Port TC IOP

2266S-3 48K Archiving Workstation

2265V-2 288 MB Disk Drives

220-3041-18 Disk 'A' Cable - 25 feet

220-3033-24 Disk 'B' Cable - 25 feet

Compiler, (COBOL, RPGII, BASIC, or PL/1)

VS85G, $93,000

VS85 CPU, 1 MB RAM, Operating System, Assembler

22V27-2 16-port serial IOP

22V28 4-Port Disk IOP

22V26-3 3-Port TC IOP

2266S-3 48K Archiving Workstation

2265V-1 Two 75 MB Disk Drives

220-3041-20 Disk 'A' Cable - 25 feet

220-3033-22 Disk 'B' Cable - 25 feet

220-3031-3 'A' Daisy Chain Cable - 10 feet

Compiler, (COBOL, RPGII, BASIC, or PL/1)

Wang VS85 Front View

Wang VS85 Rear View

210-7602, Control Memory (CM).

Wang VS85 Inside Front View

210-7600, A Bus (CP #1).

210-7601, B Bus (CP #2).

Wang VS85 Top View

210-8804, Cache Memory.

210-7605, System Bus Controller (SBC).

210-8603-1, Part of the processor.

210-8603-2, Part of the processor.

210-8311, Bus Adapter (BA).

EMC SMD Controller.

210-7410, 4-Port SMD Controller.

210-7110, 16-Port SIO Controller.

210-7826, 31-Port SIO Controller.