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An Wang founded Wang Laboratories in June
1951 as his new company. He managed to make some income
by selling a third of his company, which kept him going.
In 1955, An Wang sold one of his new inventions
to IBM for $500,000 and appointed Ge-Yao Chu, a schoolmate,
to be Vice President,. The company grew slowly and in
1964 sales reached $1,000,000. An began to create
more inventions, such as calculators with visual displays. In 1976, An began to market
his newest word processing product. This product
dominated in the word processing industry.
In addition to calculators and word processors,
An's company began to invent computers
in the early 1970s. An created many types of computers,some examples are
The Wang 2200, and The Wang VS system.