There are a few other highlights I'd like to draw attention to. Russia developed a Wang 2200 VP work-alike, called the Iskra-226. I say "work-alike" in that ap

There are a few other highlights I'd like to draw attention to. Russia developed a Wang 2200 VP work-alike, called the Iskra-226. I say "work-alike" in that apparently it only modeled the Wang BASIC-2 syntax, but was a completely in-house development from scratch. The compatibility was simply so they could take advantage of existing Wang BASIC programs. The machine support Cyrillic characters in addition to the standard Wang character set, and added a number of syntax extensions. This page talks about it, and has scans of some manuals (in Russian) for it: http://wang2200.org/iskra-226.html http://wang2200.org/iskra-226.html In the early 80s, the team which had just created BASIC-II (a large advance over the original Wang BASIC dialect) created a system that could run both COBOL and Basic-3 applications (though any one "partition" could run only BASIC or COBOL). BASIC-3 added long variable names, named subroutines with their own variable scope, DBMS commands built into the language, and more. Wang produced brochures for this new product and had started beta testing when it got crushed. The Wang VP team felt the 2200 was going to "confuse" the market because this new product would encroach on the low end Wang VS products. One of the engineers saved one of those beta (though not final beta) disks. So far no manual has turned up, but through playing around I discovered some of the features. I haven't yet figured out how to set up a partition to run COBOL, though. If anybody cares to dig further than I have, I'll happily share my notes on it (not published on the web page) http://wang2200.org/wang_basic.html#WangBASIC3 http://wang2200.org/wang_basic.html#WangBASIC3 After Wang was folded into Getronics, a company named Faastcom was started in Quebec to keep the 2200 alive using modern technology. http://wang2200.org/fasstcom.html http://wang2200.org/fasstcom.html Finally, here is a collection of surprising side effects and outright bugs that I've found (and some that others have shared) in the interpreter. Most of them are for the first generation Wang BASIC, which was in ROM and thus bugs lived forever; BASIC-II was loaded from disk, so bugs were usually quickly removed. http://wang2200.org/stupid_tricks.html http://wang2200.org/stupid_tricks.html