Riding the runaway horse

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

subjects: Inc Wang Laboratories,  Electronic industries,  Computer industry,  History

People: An Wang (1920-)

Places: United States

Times: 1950 - 1992