Editing Wang Laboratories (section)

====Wang OIS====
Following the Wang 1200, Harold Koplow and David Moros made another attempt at designing a word processor. They started by first writing the user's manual for the product.{{sfn|Kenney|1992|p=68}} A 2002 ''Boston Globe'' article refers to Koplow as a "wisecracking rebel" who "was waiting for dismissal when, in 1975, he developed the product that made computers popularly accessible."

In Koplow's words, "Dr. Wang kicked me out of marketing. I, along with Dave Moros, was relegated to Long Range Planning&nbsp;– 'LRPed'. This&nbsp;... was tantamount to being fired: 'here is a temporary job until you find another one in some other company.'"

Although he and Moros perceived the assignment to design a word processing machine as busywork, they went ahead anyway. They wrote the manual and convinced An Wang to turn it into a real project.{{sfn|Kenney|1992|p=68}} The word processing machine{{snd}}the Wang 1200 WPS{{snd}}was introduced in June 1976 and was an instant success, as was its successor, the 1977 Wang OIS<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.fortunecity.ws/roswell/goldendawn/232/WangComputers1.htm |title=Wang-Computers1 |website=Community.fortunecity.ws |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> (Office Information System).

The OIS was a multi-user system. Each workstation looked like a typical [[computer terminal|terminal]] but contained its own [[Intel 8080]] microprocessor (later versions used a [[Zilog Z80|Z80]]) and 64&nbsp;KB of RAM (less than the original 1981 [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]]). [[Disk storage]] was centralized in a master unit and shared by the workstations, and the connection was via high-speed dual [[coaxial cable]] "928 Link".<ref>During the late 1970s and early 1980s Wang Labs Dept. 14, headed by Harold Koplow, was responsible for development of the WANG WPS and OIS Systems, Wang's most successful products. The internal code name for the project was "928" derived from the date of original conception of the product September 28, 1975.</ref>