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A fact from Action Computer Enterprise appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 February 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand?
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... that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand? Source: "Along with two fellow engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., Kwok had been working on a new microcomputer that could serve several users at once. Now he and his colleagues agreed to go out on their own and, with a $50,000 investment from the Chungs, formed a joint venture called Action Computer Enterprise Inc. By February of the following year, the first California-made computers had been shipped to tobacco operations headquarters in Banphai, a small village 400 kilometers from Bangkok. While Kwok Ong and company chairman Herbert Siegel perfected the multi-user technology, Wing Chung turned to marketing Action's Discovery line of computers throughout Asia." Kotkin, Joel (June 1987). "The Chinese Way of Business". Inc. Mansueto Ventures. 9 (6): 66 – via Gale. (subscription required)
Comment The hook is not grammatically correct as written. It should be either "the first batch was delivered" or "the first batches were delivered". Normally I'd just boldly make a minor fix like this, but I'll let the nominator or reviewer decide which version of the fix to use. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
AGF on the subscription-required source. BorgQueen (talk) 19:25, 25 January 2023 (UTC)