Wang Laboratories

Wang Laboratories was an American computer company founded in 1951 by An Wang and Ge Yao Chu and based in the Boston area of Massachusetts. It began by making typesetting equipment and desktop calculators, then built a leading business in dedicated word processors in the 1970s and added minicomputers, copiers and laser printers. At its peak in the 1980s it reported annual revenue of about 3 billion dollars and employed more than 33,000 people, and it was a flagship of the Massachusetts Miracle. The company moved its headquarters from Cambridge to Tewksbury, Lowell and finally Billerica. It went public in 1967 on the American Stock Exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in August 1992, emerged as Wang Global, and was acquired by Getronics of the Netherlands in 1999.