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3 unusual facts about An Wang


An Wang

A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940.

The Wang 2200 was one of the first desktop computers with a large CRT display and ran a fast hardwired BASIC interpreter.

History of the floppy disk

In a 1976 meeting, An Wang of Wang Laboratories informed Shugart Associates' Jim Adkinson and Don Massaro, that the 8-inch format was simply too large for the desktop word processing machines he was developing at the time.



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Wangchuan ji

After completing his service there and returning to the capital city of Chang'an, Wang Wei took the opportunity of his temporary lack of official posting to explore the countyside to the south of the capital, in the Lantian area of the Zhongnan Mountains.