I need to clean the disk drives I've been using, but for the life of me, I can't find where I put my brand new bottle of isopropyl :S The Wang seems extremely picky, and only one of my spare 360KB drives will work with it (and that one is having trouble writing disks accurately). I did get it booting, however nothing on screen, and each keypress accessed the floppy again - so my thoughts are it had trouble reading the equivilent of COMMAND.COM (it loads a MENU program instead of COMMAND.COM) and had bought up a Press any key to try again message - which if true, leaves me with the issue that perhaps MS DOS for the Wang never intended for the serial port to be used as console. So many unknowns. There is great kits for sale in the US with full working units, all the disks, and all manuals - but postage just isn't a realistic option.
In other news, pulled out my 'dead' IBM 5160, set up the camera and started showing the usual procedure for tracking down a short.
I couldn't find one. Plugged it back in, and it fired up :S (5 minutes earlier it was dead). Maybe I bumped something??
Apparently it's fine again. I've left it running, I should go check on it.
Edit: it's fine, also I've confirmed my Commodore 101 key keyboards are auto XT/AT switching - that's handy because I have a few of them.
Edit2: 5160, between not working and working I had removed the serial card and never checked for shorts on -12 or 5V lines - that could be an explanation. I was only watching the +12V line (that's usually where I find shorts) when removing the cards one by one - serial was the only one I forgot to reinstall afterwards.
Edit3: it was the IBM Parallel / Serial card - 3 pin Tantium capacitor - showing 0.02 ohms (it's mates are fine, just one bad cap)