I would love to see the wang 2200 videos. I started my career as a technician servicing wang 2200T, VP, MVP and VS. Brings back good memories. I still have manuals and parts from that time.
Not to hijack the capacitor thread, but I always find it interesting to find another person who "
cut their teeth" so to speak on the 2200. It was certainly the first computer
I ever used, before my aunt and uncle got their PET and many years before we got our first home computer (a TI-99/4A.) My father's business used the 2200 MVP well into the 1990s (we even had the terminal emulator package for a couple of XT-class PCs to use instead of 2236 terminals) and I could have kept it running for much longer but we moved offices and wanted to downsize the physical space requirements away from the Wang equipment and went to PCs with thin coax. I can't recall if we kept using the band printer for a while at the new office or not...
I have a working 2200 LVP (well, the 8 meg Shugart works, I haven't been able to get the 8" floppy drive to work for many years, need to look into that) and a working 2200 MVP that used to have an 14" 80 meg CDC Phoenix connected to it which I dismantled many years ago for parts (a high school student at the time, my parents said I could only keep it if I dismantled it for parts
) but still have the fixed platters stored in a sealed box and about 6 of the removable disk packs for it, in case I ever find another Phoenix.) The band printer was also a "keep if you dismantle for parts" deal. I also have a stalled long-term project on the go for an IDE disk interface card (good ol' parallel IDE, none of this SATA rubbish) for the 2200 series that I would love to find time to finish.
I only have a couple of 2236 terminals left and the foamies in the keyboards are going to need some kind of refurbishment very soon but are otherwise operational. I also have a working 2235 dot matrix printer and some other miscellaneous pieces for 2200s and some remnants of one of the word processing systems or somesuch that uses the twin coaxial connections. I never saw that operational, I just grabbed it in a big load of Wang stuff many, many years ago and they're still in the horde.
I have the (5 meg ?) 14" drive for that system but it just throws a fault light and won't even load the heads. I don't think there was ever an interface for that style drive to the 2200, though, so it is pretty useless to me, I guess.