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Olsen was the subject of a 1988 biography, The Ultimate Entrepreneur: The Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation written by Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar. In 1993, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Olsen their IEEE Founders Medal. [citation needed]
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC / d ɛ k / ⓘ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until he was forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline.
The ultimate entrepreneur: the story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation entry in Google Books, by Glenn Rifkin, George Harrar, 1988, Chicago : Contemporary Books, ISBN 978-1-55958-022-9 The Soul of a New Machine entry in Google Books, by Tracy Kidder, Reprint from 1981, Back Bay Books, 2000.
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...
In 1993, Mitsubishi agreed to manufacture Digital's new Alpha 21066. In 1994, Digital sold its Rdb database software operations to Oracle Corporation. In 1995, Digital and Raytheon formed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement to upgrade the onboard computer of the US Navy's E-2C Hawkeye aircraft.
In 1957, Anderson and Ken Olsen, his boss at Lincoln Laboratory, decided to start their own firm.They approached American Research and Development Corporation, an early venture capital firm, which had been founded by Georges Doriot, and founded Digital Equipment Corporation after receiving $70,000 for a 70% share.
The PDP-5 was Digital Equipment Corporation's first 12-bit computer, ... DEC's founder, Ken Olsen, had worked with both it and a still earlier computer, ...
Digital Equipment Corporation founder Ken Olsen spawned and popularized Matrix Management. [9] [10] [11] ABB, formed from a 1988 merger and followed by "an ambitious acquisition program." Guiding this was a corporate structure whereby "local operations were organized within the framework of a two-dimensional matrix." [12]