>As a result we had a variety of Wang minis in the house in the mid-70s when I was a toddler, which must have been fairly unusual.
Fred Wang, An Wang's son, had the most powerful computing device on campus in his dorm room at Brown University in 1968. He set up a schedule for classmates to use it for schoolwork.
Many years later one of my Dad's customers paid me and my college housemates £10 to take away a Wang MVP system with four chonky terminals from their London offices.
We drove it all the way to Wales and had it in our shared student house for the rest of that year. Fun times.
New that system would have been something like £40,000 in late 70s/early 80s money so that was a stark introduction to asset depreciation for us!
We did have fun with it, but sadly we left it for our landlord to deal with at the end of the year. Kind of a dick move in retrospect.
I think all of us had our own PCs that were individually more powerful than that system.
Fred Wang, An Wang's son, had the most powerful computing device on campus in his dorm room at Brown University in 1968. He set up a schedule for classmates to use it for schoolwork.