Documentation, Windows User's Guide by Microsoft
date: label: date made
content: 1988
name: label: maker
content: Wang Laboratories
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content: Microsoft Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This documentation, the User’s Guide for Microsoft Windows version 2.0, was distributed by Wang Laboratories in 1988. The manual contains Microsoft guides for Windows Desktop Applications, Windows Paint, and Windows Write.
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content: Wang Laboratories was founded in 1951 and became a successful calculator company. Later they developed a successful line of word processors followed by a popular line of computers. During the 1970s-1980s the company was a dominant competitor in the computer market. By 1992 however, the company filed for bankruptcy and was eventually sold.
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content: References:
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content: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/364
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content: https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2017/04/advent-office-pcs-wang-2200-reigned-computing-dynamo
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content: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/wang-laboratories-inc-history/
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content: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/66132/wang-labs
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content: [Last accessed 6-18-2019]
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3098.034
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3098.034
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 23.1775 cm x 19.05 cm x 3.175 cm