Project Status
This archive is being built from original Wang Professional Computer disks, manuals, binders, hardware, and recovery work. The initial focus is capturing fragile floppy media as flux images, documenting failures, and preserving the paper records that explain how these systems were installed, operated, networked, and maintained.
Archive Areas
Software
Recovered Wang Professional Computer software, including system disks, utilities, language tools, communications software, WangNet-related media, and application disks.
Documentation
Manuals, binders, installation notes, operating procedures, and technical references that give context to the software and hardware.
Recovery Logs
Disk-by-disk notes covering imaging attempts, media condition, flux captures, bad sectors, rewritten test disks, and unusual findings.
Hardware
Notes on Wang Professional Computer systems, cards, storage devices, floppy drives, hard disks, power supplies, and restoration procedures.
Recent Findings
BASIC Support Services
Identified as containing WangNet configuration-related functionality.
OIS Material
Office Information System disks and supporting documentation are being cataloged.
Pascal Media
Some Pascal disks show logical read failures, but flux captures have been preserved for future analysis.
Why This Exists
Much of the surviving Wang Professional Computer ecosystem is scattered, undocumented, or locked away on aging magnetic media. Some disks still read. Some only partially read. Some fail mechanically or shed oxide after a single pass. Capturing them now preserves more than just files; it preserves evidence.
The goal is to keep both the successful recoveries and the failed attempts. Flux images, sector images, notes, labels, photographs, and manuals all matter. A damaged disk can still contain useful historical information.
Availability
Public downloads will be added as material is verified, organized, and described. Large preservation files may be hosted separately from this website, with this site serving as the catalog, project log, and documentation index.