In 1963, Compugraphic moved to Reading and commissioned Massachusetts-based Wang Laboratories to develop the Linasec, a computer used to prepare justified punched tape to drive linotype typesetting machines which were widely used in the printing industry, which at that time was based entirely on hot metal type.
In 1975, KDUN's owners were frustrated by the volume of paperwork then required for scheduling advertising, billing advertisers, and producing each day's commercial lineup, they purchased a Wang Laboratories minicomputer and, along with engineer Wes Lockard, invented software to handle these traffic and billing tasks.
Abbott Laboratories | Sandia National Laboratories | Wayne Wang | Vera Wang | Xiaoming Wang | Wang Beixing | Gold Standard Laboratories | Wang Laboratories | Wang Jingwei | Dolby Laboratories | Chalk River Laboratories | Wang Wei (8th-century poet) | Wang Wei | Dr. Reddy's Laboratories | Wang Yuegu | Wang Ying (actress) | Wang Ying | Wang Xiaoshuai | Wang Weiyi | Wang Mang | Wang Hui | Wang Guangyi | Wang Bingyu | Wang Baoqiang | Sungei Wang Plaza | Ranbaxy Laboratories | Patrick Wang | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories | Cyndi Wang | Wang Zuo |
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.
Some notable companies at the time of the Miracle were Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General, Wang Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Apollo Computer.
DEC gave rise to a number of minicomputer companies along Massachusetts Route 128, including Data General, Wang Laboratories, Apollo Computer, and Prime Computer.