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5 unusual facts about Li-Chen Wang


Cromemco Bytesaver

Cromemco also offered a 3K Control Basic interpreter, developed by Li-Chen Wang.

Exatron Stringy Floppy

According to Embedded Systems magazine the Exatron Stringy Floppy used Manchester encoding, achieving 14K read-write speeds and the code controlling the device was developed by Li-Chen Wang (who also wrote a Tiny BASIC, the basis for the TRS-80 Model I Level I BASIC.)

Li-Chen Wang

He was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and made significant contributions to the software for early microcomputer systems from Tandy Corporation and Cromemco.

Stan Veit was the owner of The Computer Mart in New York City.

The first color graphics interface for microcomputers,developed by Cromemco and called the Dazzler, was introduced in 1976 with a demonstration program called "Kaleidoscope" written by Dr. Wang.



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