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5 unusual facts about Li-Chen Wang


Cromemco Bytesaver

Cromemco also offered a 3K Control Basic interpreter, developed by Li-Chen Wang.

Exatron Stringy Floppy

According to Embedded Systems magazine the Exatron Stringy Floppy used Manchester encoding, achieving 14K read-write speeds and the code controlling the device was developed by Li-Chen Wang (who also wrote a Tiny BASIC, the basis for the TRS-80 Model I Level I BASIC.)

Li-Chen Wang

He was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and made significant contributions to the software for early microcomputer systems from Tandy Corporation and Cromemco.

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Stan Veit was the owner of The Computer Mart in New York City.

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The first color graphics interface for microcomputers,developed by Cromemco and called the Dazzler, was introduced in 1976 with a demonstration program called "Kaleidoscope" written by Dr. Wang.



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