Harold Koplow

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Harold Koplow was raised in Lynn, Massachusetts. When his father developed health problems, Koplow became a pharmacy technician at his father's store, Broadway Pharmacy. After graduating from Swampscott High School, he was accepted at both MIT and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and opted for the latter because he did not receive a scholarship at MIT.

He married Ellie in 1962 after graduating from pharmacy school. He then enrolled at Tufts University for a graduate degree in Physics. He briefly worked as a school teacher before joining Wang Laboratories where he programmed calculators. One of his programs permitted a Wang calculator to interface with an IBM Selectric typewriter which could be used to calculate and print the paperwork for auto sales.

When Wang acquired Philip Hankins, Inc. (PHI), Koplow met Dave Moros with whom he would later collaborate to create the Wang Word Processing System. This and other office automation products that were created in Koplow's department were among the most successful products in Wang's history.

Koplow left Wang in 1982 because of conflicts with Fred Wang. He lived briefly in California before moving to Gainesville, Florida where he died while in his 60s.

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