Riding the runaway horse
the rise and decline of Wang Laboratories
1st ed.
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Word Count
80,750 words, Guess
Page Count
323 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1544376M
- ISBN-100316489190
- OCLC Control Number24067243
- OCLC Control Numberridingrunawayhor00kenn
- Library of Congress Control Number91023454
and 2 more
- Goodreads437059
- LibraryThing1239816
Classifications
- DDC338.7/61004/0973
- LCCHD9696.C64 W364 1992
Description
An interesting book about an early computer pioneer, and the meteoric rise of his company and its equally meteoric demise. Perhaps the saddest aspect of the book is that the fundamental flaw in Wang's character was that he was a control freak and determined to allow no one except his son Fred to manage the company . This, and the fact essentially the company became a one product enterprise, resulted in its rapid failure once the need for the product ( a stand alone word processor ) evaporated with the advent of the PC
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