Object Details
- Wang Laboratories
- Microsoft Corporation
- Description
- This documentation, the User’s Guide for Microsoft Windows version 2.0, was distributed by Wang Laboratories in 1988. The manual contains Microsoft guides for Windows Desktop Applications, Windows Paint, and Windows Write.
- Wang Laboratories was founded in 1951 and became a successful calculator company. Later they developed a successful line of word processors followed by a popular line of computers. During the 1970s-1980s the company was a dominant competitor in the computer market. By 1992 however, the company filed for bankruptcy and was eventually sold.
- References:
- https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/364
- https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2017/04/advent-office-pcs-wang-2200-reigned-computing-dynamo
- http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/wang-laboratories-inc-history/
- https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/66132/wang-labs
- [Last accessed 6-18-2019]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1988
- ID Number
- 2012.3098.034
- catalog number
- 2012.3098.034
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3098
- Object Name
- documentation
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 23.1775 cm x 19.05 cm x 3.175 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1695417
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-c692-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
