[Leica] Wang computer perfidy

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Slobodan Dimitrov writes:


Of course it's an American company. (Cisco)

That shouldn't come as no surprise. Some time ago, In Latin America, the
polling registration lists were used to stifle dissent.

Those were put together using Wang computers. Oliver North was instrumental
in one such project. It's well documented.

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But, of course, the founders of Wang Computers were both Chinese.

Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu started the company in 1951. At its peak in
the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenues of $3 billion and employed
over 33,000 people.

The company was always directed by Dr. Wang, who played a personal role in
setting business strategy and product strategy; he also took steps to ensure
that the Wang family would retain control of the company even after going
public. He created a second class of stock, class B, with higher dividends,
but only one-tenth the voting power of class C. The public mostly bought
class B shares; the Wang family retained most of the class C shares. This
maneuver was not quite acceptable under NYSE's rules, and Wang was forced to
delist with NYSE and relist on the more liberal American Stock Exchange.
Wang Laboratories filed for bankruptcy protection in August 1992. After
emerging from bankruptcy, the company eventually changed its name to *Wang
Global*. In 1999, Wang Global was acquired by Gentronics of The Netherlands.
So the conspiracy, if any, was international. There is enough shame to be
shared by all. Interestingly the SS troopers who shot woman and children
during the Warsaw Ghetto uprisings documented their perfidious acts with
Leica cameras. One must take care to distinguish the instruments form the
men who use them. Cameras don't kill. People do.

Larry Z