Li-Chen Wang was born on 1935 and is an American computer engineer, best known for his Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for Intel 8080-based microcomputers.
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12 Facts About Li-Chen Wang
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Li-Chen Wang was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and made significant contributions to the software for early microcomputer systems from Tandy Corporation and Cromemco.
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Li-Chen Wang made early use of the word copyleft, in Palo Alto Tiny BASIC's distribution notice "@COPYLEFT ALL WRONGS RESERVED" in June 1976.
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Li-Chen Wang analyzed the Altair BASIC code and contributed edits to Tiny BASIC Extended.
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Li-Chen Wang published in the newsletter a loader for the 8080, commenting on the Open Letter to Hobbyists:.
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Li-Chen Wang was one of the first to use word copyleft, in June 1976.
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Li-Chen Wang had earlier contributed edits to Tiny BASIC Extended before writing his own interpreter.
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Li-Chen Wang encouraged others to adapt his source code and publish their adaptions, as with Roger Rauskolb's version published in Interface Age.
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Li-Chen Wang wrote a STARTREK program in his Tiny BASIC that appeared in the July 1976 issue of the People's Computer Company Newsletter.
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Li-Chen Wang placed a color television in his store window displaying the colorful, ever-changing kaleidoscopic patterns generated by the Dazzler and Wang's software.
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Li-Chen Wang created WSFN, a programming language for controlling robots and published by Dr Dobb's Journal in September 1977.
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In 2001 Li-Chen Wang was re-elected for a second term as chair of the Infrared Data Association's Technical and Test committee.
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