Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang. The company had its headquarters in Cambridge (1954-1963), Tewksbury (1963-1976) and Lowell, Massachusetts (1976-1992).
In the sixties, the company was engaged in the manufacture of electronic calculators.
The breakthrough came about in the development of the Wang word processor. This was his time far ahead. Then Wang developed a series of minicomputers, starting with the "2200" with a powerful dialect of Basic as programming language and later the "VS series", which could also be written in COBOL. The eighties were the high days of Wang. Over 30,000 employees worked with Wang at the time.
In 1992, the company asked for a surseance of payment. After reconstruction, the company transformed into a world-wide IT service company through the acquisition of OLetti's Olivetti Systems & Services (Olivetti Systems & Services) of the Italian company Olivetti, and changed its business name to "Wang Global". In 1999, Wang Global was acquired by the Dutch company Getronics. Wang in the Netherlands
From the 1970s, the 2200 series in the Netherlands was widely used in insurance and administration offices, largely due to the popularity of an administration package that had an expanded flexibility for those days. The Wang VS systems were widely used in the 1980s and 1990s. Among other things, pension funds (ABP), as well as a number of hospitals used WANG-US minicomputers. The fourth generation Speed-II and later PACE programming language was a widely used programming environment on the Wang VS systems. At that time, Wang had a branch in Culemborg.
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