[new299]

Wang Labs seems to be getting a lot of attention these days. I’m guessing it was one of the following too videos highlighting the company that surfaced this? (Both videos are great if you’ve not seen them).

Background on Wang here: https://youtu.be/MgDZQy0nN-Y

And a short series of videos on bringing up a Wang Writer: https://youtu.be/QoEhyQ0SXUE

[jmartrican]

I came here to post the link from Asianometry (one of my fav YT channels), but you beat me to it. I also want to point out that Wang Senior reminds me of Marcus Aurelius. Both were very smart and showed a lot of wisdom. Very accomplished individuals. But both made the same mistake. They thought that their offspring would be as affective as them? Or maybe that their offspring, even with their flaws, deserved to own the things that they built?

In both cases their is a lesson for the rest of us. Do not assume your children will be good stewards of our creations or that they are as good (in the things we built and want to give to them) as we were. I do not know the solution here. Maybe sell said creation and give them the cash. Or give it to the family, assuming you built a family. I point to the Ford family here. They have been good stewards to the car company. Many might not agree, but whenever the Ford company goes into deep trouble (maybe due to the family itself) but the family does come together and do the right things to save the company.

[louwrentius]

The second video is from Usagi Electric. He did a recent colab with Veritasium on lightbulbs (vacuum tubes). His videos are awesome and he has several different cool projects running.

1. 1-bit Vacuum tube computer

2. Centurion Mini computer (whole series, amazing)

3. Wang Writer

4. PDP-11 (just started out)

5. Liton mini computer with drum memory

6. TI-99 computer