Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Rise and Sad Fall of Wang Labs" video.

  1. From his Chinese name 王安 Wáng Ān, which is most correctly pronounced "wong" with a rising tone English speakers usually hear as a question mark. To differentiate between the two better (even though they are intimately linked), perhaps the narrator could pronounce "wong?" for the man and "wang!" for the company as it was known on the market.
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  2. Asian parents grew up in a time and place where age equates to wisdom and status. That doesn't translate to a place like America where prosperity is best sought through youthful experimentation and market disruption.
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  3. I work in public sector IT, which suffers from "fiscal responsibility" compliances and other considerations that gum up the procurement process. While there's no Wang equipment around anymore, I have occasionally found Wang branded mousepads and the like, and older coworkers have mentioned swapping out old Wang terminals.
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  4. My older coworkers remember upgrading out of Wang equipment. We still sometimes find a random Wang branded mousepad.
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