Talk:An Wang

Marital status of the children

'''' The marital status of Dr Wang's children is not relevant to this article, and seems designed to cast a negative view of the Wang family. I'm removing it. Information about their respective divorces, spousal suicides, etc may be placed in articles about thos specific individuals, if they exist. Joshua 13:37, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Minicomputer/mainframe

There has been much debate about this on the page [[Talk:Wang Laboratories]. Wang itself has never ever said it made mainframes. I speak from some authority though cannot find material to cite. I was in the UK the marketing manager for the Wang VS in the late 1980s. Rehashing those arguments here is counterproductive. I am removing the word "mainframe" where it refers to the Wang product line. Fiddle Faddle 17:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[This was a good move. Of course Wang was never near mainframes. Who said he was? Who is it loves to come in here and rewrite history? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.1.163.85 (talk • contribs) . ]

The alleged mediocre businessman

If he was mediocre, how come his corporation grew from zero to $3bn? That first sentence really has to be altered. Fiddle Faddle 17:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia, so you know what to do: be bold!

Atlant 23:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I was :) Don't know why I wrote such a wet comment here, really. I meant to explain what I'd done, instead it looked like I wimped out :) Fiddle Faddle 23:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

What happened?

It's obvious many people have edited this page. What's not obvious is why they let so many grammar bombs and typos remain.

Please do not waste JW's resources by putting double spaces after your full stops. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.1.163.85 (talk • contribs) .

Odd, is it not. The previous contributor left the first paragraph in unreadable characters. I corrected them but grabbing them from a previous version. Beams vs Motes, I think. Fiddle Faddle 10:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Dr Chu and his modified typewriter

LA This paragraph was sort of floating in the text, not really connected to the text before or after it. Could someone else say how this ties into the company's history? I'd like to know whether Chu made an actual mechanical typewriter into a crude word processor, or whether this is more about the design of the Wang 2200. Dates would also help to fix this point. Finally, any external sources that describe this would be very helpful. Here's the text I moved here from the main article. --Zippy 19:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Dr Chu, while trained as an electrical engineer, was in fact a mechanical wizard and was instrumental in modifying a typewriter for the word processor. A cassette tape built into the typewriter could store and display text files. These files could be edited and printed (as if the typewriter were typing on its own). At the time personal computers were unheard of and having a simple word processor was very useful, however these Wangs were expensive, multiuser machines.

Fred Wang

Is this Fred Wang An Wang's son? --Zippy 11:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

It looks like him Fiddle Faddle 20:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Postmortem Patents?

How is it that several of the patents listed in the article are shown as having been granted after his death (one by more than 4 years)? -70.251.93.156 (talk) 21:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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