30 thoughts on “Stephen King: Clacking Out Horror Classics on a Wang in ’82”
Crazy to think how many millions of lives he touched with his Wang. Many, like myself, were far too young to fully understand what was really going on but continue to experience the effects to this day.
Before Wang Office Automation, document creation and management was rarely found. It was a critical standard for more than a decade in large organizations and firms.
Wang was a girthy player in IT back then, resizing document management with authority. There may have been initial trepidation, but people came to embrace what Wang delivered.
There was a huge Wang factory complex in my city back in the 80s, you could see the WANG writing on top of the building from half the town, every day I saw WANG
$12k? I guess it must have seemed pretty fucking cool, at the time. My dad got us an Apple II c, in 1984, when I was little. It really wasn’t all that cool, but I didn’t know that.
$12,000? Wow. Less than 8 years later I’d be carrying a Brother word processor to college that cost about $400, and it even had a printer and a floppy drive. I bet the wang didn’t have a floppy!
My daughter always talks about how he must be a closet pedo. After thinking about his books that I have read, this checks out and I wonder why I had never paid any attention to it. There is the famous “It” scene where the kids have to have sex, but there are others, I just read “The Institute” (a newer book of his) and he spent way too long describing in detail a young teenage girl’s physical attributes. There are way too many examples for me to remember right now, but damn.
Crazy to think how many millions of lives he touched with his Wang. Many, like myself, were far too young to fully understand what was really going on but continue to experience the effects to this day.
Just out of frame: his entire bodyweight in cocaine.
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Before Wang Office Automation, document creation and management was rarely found. It was a critical standard for more than a decade in large organizations and firms.
About $40,000 in today’s money.
That’s not Number Wang!
We need a crisped image so we can see what he’s writing
And his free unibrow
He looks good with a beard, should have kept it.
Hehe, “Wang.”
Wang was a girthy player in IT back then, resizing document management with authority. There may have been initial trepidation, but people came to embrace what Wang delivered.
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You said Wang.
https://i.redd.it/70am8wwiscpd1.gif
There was a huge Wang factory complex in my city back in the 80s, you could see the WANG writing on top of the building from half the town, every day I saw WANG
Right around the time he wrote and acted in Creepshow with George A. Romero!
After reading the comments I’m still not sure if the mentioning of his Wang is a dirty joke or not.
Love the Wang!
EVERYBODY WANG CHUNG TONIGHT
$12k? I guess it must have seemed pretty fucking cool, at the time. My dad got us an Apple II c, in 1984, when I was little. It really wasn’t all that cool, but I didn’t know that.
One of my first computers back then was a WANG.
Damn I’m getting old….
Cool pic
$12,000? Wow. Less than 8 years later I’d be carrying a Brother word processor to college that cost about $400, and it even had a printer and a floppy drive. I bet the wang didn’t have a floppy!
Look at his pupils.
That’s a dumb terminal that would have bolted up to something like a VS-100 mid-frame. That printer is fairly serious business (for the time) as well.
To think he wrote many a great novels with that 12k WP. 👍
My daughter always talks about how he must be a closet pedo. After thinking about his books that I have read, this checks out and I wonder why I had never paid any attention to it. There is the famous “It” scene where the kids have to have sex, but there are others, I just read “The Institute” (a newer book of his) and he spent way too long describing in detail a young teenage girl’s physical attributes. There are way too many examples for me to remember right now, but damn.
Back when he chain smoked and snorted rails he was cool. Now he’s just an old man that yells at clouds.
He looks creepier than that lady in Shining
He’s one ugly creepy mofo